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...hard not to. Her eyes are sloped, inviting, penetrating. At 5 ft. 2 in., she's small but also lithe, with a tiny waist and a size-2 build. And in person she also turns out to be one of those energetic sorts who seem much taller. "I'm a happy person by nature. I'm spunky," she says. "And don't let me eat presweetened cereal, or it's over." But she also confides: "I'm kind of private, but not aloof. I just like being by myself; I don't open up a lot of times to people...
...stroke hasn't changed. Earlier, in the cool of the morning at the U.S.C. pool, visual memory kicked in, and it was easy to tell which of the swimmers churning 50-m lengths at three-quarter speed was Evans. But she's taller now by a couple of inches--that was clear as she eased out of the pool--and heavier by nearly 20 lbs. of hydrodynamic muscle. This is a change in body mass from waiflike to slim, but it explains why Evans has competed unsuccessfully for so many years against an elusive sprite named Janet...
According to a recent article in the Washington Post by Jay Mathews, tactical moves of that sort by either candidate aren't likely to make much difference. Mathews says that in a presidential election the taller candidate almost always wins anyway. In the 11 presidential races of what he calls the television era, beginning in 1952, the shorter candidate won only twice...
Also, it isn't clear which candidate actually has the disadvantage. Unfortunately, Mathews, who otherwise was a real terrier in tracking down facts about height, couldn't come up with a definitive answer to the question of which 1996 candidate is taller. Dole is pretty certainly 6 ft. 2 in., but there seems to be some question about whether Clinton...
...Urban Habitat, which really does exist and is considered the final arbiter on the subject of which building is the tallest. Chicago argued that a tall building ought to be measured to its highest occupied floor rather than to its structural top. That would make the Sears Towers taller than the Kuala Lumpur building, which gets its final 242 ft. of height from some decorative spires that I believe are referred to in the local dialect as tchotchkes...