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Ever since, track promoters have sought a rematch, and when it was finally set for London's Crystal Palace last week (with each woman receiving a reported $25,000 to appear), the entire schedule of the Peugeot-Talbot Games was rejiggered so that the confrontation could be seen live on American TV. For those who wondered how the Olympic race would have turned out, last Saturday's race seemed for its first half an eerie replay. Slaney (Decker married British Discus Thrower Richard Slaney on New Year's Day) took the lead from the start, as she likes...
...84th race, at Hollywood Park in California, John Henry injured a tendon in his right foreleg during a routine workout. Last week Sam Rubin, who bought the high-spirited gelding for $25,000 seven years ago, announced that racing's grand old superstar was finally retiring from the track. The two-time Horse of the Year, five-time Eclipse award winner and emotional favorite of fans will be put out to pasture. "Truthfully," says Rubin, "he was the most determined animal I've ever seen in racing. He wasn't the greatest. I could think of many that were greater...
...assimilated. And so Mom's Old World neighbors play mahjongg with her, then go home to "see what Alexis is up to" on Dynasty. When Geraldine and her kindly, crumpled uncle (Victor Wong) botch a home-cooked Chinese meal, they wind up dining at McDonald's. On the sound track, a zheng and a keening saxophone play a duet of The Star-Spangled Banner. One expects this felicitous cross-fertilization from Director Wayne Wang (Chan Is Missing), who was born in Hong Kong and named after John Wayne...
...first time in Harvard’s history, two professors specializing in Native American studies have been hired for tenure track positions in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...Crimson looks to get back on track this Saturday, when it takes on Dartmouth and MIT in the Biglin Bowl on the Charles River. Harvard has won eight of the last nine in the Biglin Bowl series, and a victory Saturday will give the lightweights their third consecutive victory over MIT and Dartmouth...