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Surya Bonaly, 20, is the purist's bane and the crowd's darling. This tiny French girl leaps with abandon, spins her own way, often at a scary tilt, and in between pumps her way around the rink. But within the past 15 months she has decided to add some discipline to her act. Her stroking is smoother, her program better paced. She is talented enough to execute difficult moves correctly and zany enough not to lose her wit and vitality if she chooses...
Hoping to give the federal courts a rightward tilt that would last a generation, Presidents Reagan and Bush appointed federal judges who were conservative, white, male and youngish. Nevertheless, President Clinton has a good chance of remaking much of the federal bench as he would like. There are some 850 federal judgeships; Clinton has already made nominations for 48 of them, and he still has close to 100 vacancies to fill, with more to come in the next three years. Clinton's choices so far reflect a much greater interest in nonmaleness and nonwhiteness than was demonstrated by Bush, Reagan...
According to December's Magic magazine, there are nine major shows in Vegas that are either full-tilt magic acts or feature magicians big. But that's an underestimate, because it doesn't count Vegas regulars like the Pendragons (husband and wife magicians and body builders -- it had to happen). Nor does it count the acts that play the celebrity rooms several weeks a year, such as Harry Blackstone Jr., David Copperfield and, yes, Penn & Teller. Then there are the close-up guys who sit at your table and do tricks and jokes right in your and your date...
...Anytime you play Yale in any sport it is such an emotional tilt," Tomassoni says. "We just need to play three consistent periods of hockey...
Maguire will be back for Friday's tilt with Brown, but first-line center Karmanos suffered a clean break of his collarbone and will be out for several weeks...