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Brown, which was forced to reinstate women's gymnastics and volleyball shortly after the suit was filed in 1992, has 16 men's and 17 women's varsity teams, as well as a co-ed golf team. Although women are 51 percent of Brown's student body, they represent only 38 percent of its approximately 800 varsity athletes...
...Griffin's trial, a clinic nurse testified that she saw Burt and another protester shake hands moments after Griffin fired his gun, something that Burt denies. Though he is now a target of the Morris Dees civil suit, Burt was never charged in the murder. He defended his role on a television talk show, saying, "If I am a general with troops under me and I give them a game plan and send them out, I can't be responsible for every soldier in that army...
...Roddas finally found refuge with strangers in a house on higher ground--and remembered their stranded cats. So one of their rescuers put on his wet suit, paddled his surfboard back to the Roddas' house, wrapped the indignant animals in towels and ferried them out perched on the front of the surfboard...
...were taken aback. Supermodels like CLAUDIA SCHIFFER (with a swirly 'do) shared the catwalk with celebrities TIPPI HEDREN and PATTY HEARST, who stripped (somewhat awkwardly) down to sequins. Mugler wowed the crowd with ensembles made of tight black plastic, skirts that bloomed up from the waist and a robot suit that took six months to make. Said the designer to Le Figaro: "You can understand why I can't do this twice a year...
Cuban leader Fidel Castro, in a new bid for international acceptance, made a round of political and social visits in Europe. Occasionally swapping his trademark fatigues for a dark blue suit and spotted tie, he criticized "blind and savage market laws" at the world-poverty summit in Copenhagen, told UNESCO in Paris that the U.S. blockade of Cuba was "criminal" and basked in the lavish praise of outgoing Socialist French President Francois Mitterrand and his wife Danielle. Castro also played tourist. "My strongest impression?" he told reporters. "Chablis wine...