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...standout swimmer himself, showing the team's determination with his in-season best times in both the 100 backstroke on a lead-off swim for the medley relay and the 200 backstroke, which he won in 1:50.96. The Crimson's Shevchick, freshman Corey Walker and junior Dan Bazylewicz proved the tremendous depth of the team by taking second, third, and fourth in the event...

Author: By Elizabeth R. Baxter, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Swimming Blows Army, Columbia Out of Water | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...windowless brownstone club house, Bush and a collection of Bonesmen including a Rhodes scholar and a gold-medal swimmer, mused over their life stories and their sexual histories as part of the club's bonding ritual...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bush Spent Undergrad Years Away From Politics | 11/17/1999 | See Source »

...temptation, once the ruse is discovered, is to ignore the long sections about the faux Morris. But buried within these sections are some trenchant and worthwhile observations about Reagan. After a dreamy sequence imagining Reagan practicing his swimming, Morris observes: "The swimmer enjoys a loneliness greater, yet oddly more comforting, than that of the long distance runner. One tunnels along in a shroud of silvery bubbles... Others may swim alongside for a while, but their individuality tends to refract away, through the bubbles and the blur. Often I have marveled at Reagan's cool, unhurried progress through crises of politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mixing Fact and Fiction | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

Your article on the potential for genetically manipulating humans has left me wondering if scientists have been doing it for years. I am sure Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe is the product of splicing the tail gene of a humpback whale onto the foot gene of a human. PETER CHARTER Durban, South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 4, 1999 | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...helicopters came around in a circle, into the wind, to get better control. Then they lowered a diver on a rope. Navy rescue swimmer Shad Hernandez came into the water about 30 yds. from us. He put a harness on each of us, and we were hauled into the helicopter, which was hovering about 15 ft. above the highest waves. I couldn't even hear it because my ears were so full of water. But when it got close, I could feel the beating of the blades in my chest. I'll tell you, that was a very nice feeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adrift in Floyd: It Was Like Watching Hope Float Away | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

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