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About two dozen of us stood with unlit candles, gathered in front of Memorial Church to remember the swiftest and most violent bloodletting of our time--the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Dusk would blend into night with the grace of a returning spring, but none of us noticed. Our attention was instead focused on a slew of academics, activists victims who with a moving mixture of eloquence, pomp and passion, described those three months of unbridled insanity and lamented the rediscovered hollowness of slogans like "Never Again...
...buying it at that price either. Writers of today know that the nobility bestowed on Henry Miller and D.H. Lawrence will never be ours, that nobody bothers with repression anymore because everyone knows that to crack down on an artist is to promote him. Even Jesse Helms, not the swiftest intellect in the U.S. Senate, knows this, having personally raised Robert Mapplethorpe from obscurity. Performance artists who languished for years, underwhelming tiny audiences for practically no money, have been rescued by a ringing denunciation from the religious right and given a career...
...fastest in the world in both the 200 and the 400. To the uninitiated, the 200/400 double sounds no more difficult than the more common 100/200 or 400/800 combinations. "The 200 and 400 are totally different animals," says Hart. If the 200 is a race that goes to the swiftest, the 400 goes to the smartest and strongest. Johnson, in fact, embodies those superlatives--his physique suggests a linebacker recently converted from wide receiver...
...swaggering American sailors in 1851, the America's Cup (as it was called from then on) has overflowed with machismo. It was not just the Vanderbilts, the Liptons, the Ted Turners, the Alan Bonds, the Baron Bichs and the Raul Gardinis out to prove who was the richest, swiftest guy on the dock. The very image of the U.S. as a mega-tech superpower seemed at stake. Let Airbus lend its experts to the French, let the Australians weigh in with winged keels, let the Japanese marshal their mighty corporate establishment; the best of Boeing, Lockheed, M.I.T. and General Motors...
Luckily for the women, Koch, reincarnated as the Daddy Warbucks of diversity, wants to provide them with the swiftest boat money can buy. The iconoclastic Kansan, heir to an oil fortune, spent $68 million to win the 1992 cup -- and he is passing on many of his assets, including his two best yachts as training vessels, a huge inventory of masts, sails, rigging and tools, and reams of computer, design and meteorological data. Koch also contributed $5 million in seed money -- a quarter of the women's budget -- to hire some 90 top-level coaches, engineers, fund raisers and public...