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Cross-country-skiing coaches dream of athletes like Philip Boit, 26, who is blessed with a long stride, a powerful upper body, endurance and stamina. One problem: Boit, a Kenyan middle-distance runner, had never seen snow until 1996, when he was recruited by Nike to test the proposition that good runners make good skiers. He has cut his time for the 10-km classic race from 2 hr. to a creditable 30 min. But Boit has no illusions about challenging Norway's Bjorn Daehlie, who won the 1994 gold with a time of 24:20.1. "Even if I finish...
Even with the controversial decision of randomization soon to be reevaluated, and the imminent retirement of two of the Houses' longest standing masters, this distinguished group is taking change in stride. The show must...
...legitimate ground that people really don't seem to care. For better or worse, it seems to be the journalists who are making way too much of a Victorian fuss about the President's alleged misbehavior and the rest of the citizenry who are taking it all in stride and keeping it in perspective...
Imagine a pair of race horses entering the final stretch. The outcome becomes more and more ambiguous with each stride and to the chagrin of ticket holders in the grandstands, the winner remains a mystery until the final moment...
...year-old Pope looks even worse. Last week he nearly fainted as he walked into a solemn Mass. He was always a physical leader who knew how to speak with his body. Now the long, bounding stride of his early pontificate has been reduced to a slow and agonized shuffle in which he barely lifts his feet from the ground. He takes care to hide the shaking left hand that signals the onset of Parkinson's disease, but he cannot disguise the frozen features and slurred words that at times betray the illness. Rumors of cancer and of the Pope...