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...time, finally hauled in the 1,500-m gold medal that had eluded him in two previous Olympics, he fell to the track and bawled. His fellow runners picked him up and hugged him, then laughed as he performed a victory dance to the Zorba the Greek theme that played about 14,000 times during the Games. (El Guerrouj was more restrained on Saturday night, when he unexpectedly won gold in the 5,000 m.) Looking for villains? The crowd reserved its lustiest boos for the judges. There were questionable calls in the pool, on the gymnastics floor...
DIED. DAVID RAKSIN, 92, composer of scores for more than 100 Hollywood films and 300 TV shows who was best known for the haunting theme song of the 1944 film noir Laura; in Van Nuys, Calif...
...Finding ways to help people around the world move up the economic ladder will undoubtedly be a central theme of my work as Dean,” Ellwood wrote...
...classical compositions. Then came the big break: Davis co-wrote a jingle for a bread company chronicling a fictional long-haul trucker named C.W. McCall and his main squeeze Mavis, a waitress at the "Old Home Filler-Up an' Keep On A-Truckin' Cafe." The ad eventually became the theme song of Convoy...
...used to be a question of farmers' wives offering rooms on the side, but now for many it's a full-time business," says Nigel Embry, who runs Farm Stay UK, a nonprofit body that publishes a directory of farms that take guests. Dairyland Farm World, a farm-turned-theme-park in southwestern England, has gone down the diversification route. For an entry fee of $40 per family, Dairyland offers a milking parlor and a "pat-a-pet" area...