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...target. Although bodyguards killed several of the assailants, Saddam escaped with a bullet in his left leg. In the glorified words of his own hagiography -- the truth is less dramatic -- he carved out the bullet himself with a razor dipped in iodine, then disguised himself as a Bedouin tribesman, swam across the Tigris River, stole a donkey and fled across the desert to Syria. He was captured and jailed, but supposedly word of his adventures reached Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who was then a charismatic exponent of pan-Arabism. Nasser got Saddam transferred to Cairo, and became another...
Souter's belief system mirrors that of an aunt, a Simmons College professor and Cambridge dowager who swam Lake Winnipesaukee in her 70s, was conservative socially and politically but liberal in her concern for other people. Although she was an heiress of the Boston & Maine Railroad who didn't need the money, she became a pioneering medical social worker at Massachusetts General Hospital...
...Nobody does. I don't get rattled by that stuff. I got beat real hard and heavy in the Olympic Games in 1968 by a guy who swam an incredible race one time in his whole life, but he did it right at the right time. I'd like to be that guy now. Maybe that's what I'm going to have to pull out of my hat to make the Olympic team...
Williams was named to the first team in the 500-yard freestyle, the 200 freestyle and the 1650 freestyle. In addition, the Louisiana sensation joined Peterson, Sumner Anderson and Stephen Root on Harvard's First Team All-Ivy 800 freestyle relay, and swam the freestyle leg on the Crimson's Second Team All-Ivy 200 and 400 medley relay teams...
...whole we swam well," Johnson said. "If one or two breaks had gone our way we might have won. But that's the nature of the sport--you win some and you lose some. We have nothing to be ashamed...