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...running, even if the moms were not already so inclined. Raina Ashley Washington, 13 months, is the daughter of Olympic Gold Medalist Sprinter Evelyn Ashford and her husband, Basketball Coach Ray Washington. Ashley Lynn Slaney, one month, belongs to Olympic Middle Distance Runner Mary Decker Slaney and her discus-thrower husband Richard. The tiny two were born on the same day, May 30, and when the two mothers and daughters got together in Eugene, Ore., where Slaney lives, she found the babies even shared the same name. "Both are very strong babies, with sturdy legs," says Ashford. "It would...
...stage, sometimes quickly, sometimes stroking the air with slow-motion body gestures to create the impression of being lighter-than-air. The effect works; Evett manages to deliver some momentous dialogue with astonishing pungency, all the while balancing his taut figure in the pose of a Greek discus thrower...
...local resident, "but baseball is a world where you can catch them." While he had a losing record overall with the Reds, Cubs and Indians, Vander Meer pitched two consecutive no-hitters in 1938. As a craftsman, Gooden puts him in mind of Ewell Blackwell; as a hard thrower, he recalls Van Lingle Mungo. "But no one I ever saw was the thinking pitcher at a young age that this kid is now." Owing to a wisdom that has comforted him for almost 50 years, Vander Meer has no fear for his memories. "Gooden's the guy who could...
...this hedonistic mindset lasts only as long as the ephemeral elements that cause it. As I ran, snowball in hand, amid fellow frolicking freshmen, I heard an alarming piece of conversation. "Are you taking Chem 20?" queried one snowball thrower of his companion. When I realized that the classwide fun and games in the Yard would soon give way to individual quests for second semester success, the veil of frost glazing my vision quickly cleared...
...Wall Street Journal set the outer limits last summer by blaming the current South African unrest on the American protest movement. Hyperbolic flame-thrower Dinesh D'Souza followed in The New York Times by implying that those who support divestment from South Africa are in fact condoning mass extinction and, by obvious implication, persecution of Jews in the Soviet Union. That charge, in addition to being utterly absurd, lent a new, odious twist to anti-Semitic-baiting by the right...