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...turn to the University of Connecticut (UCONN). UCONN's women's basketball team is ranked number three in the country, led by the outstanding Nykesha Sales. Led, that is, until she suffered a season-ending Achilles' tendon injury in a game on Saturday, February 21. And in a cruel twist of fate, Sales, a senior, suffered the injury needing only one more field goal to become UCONN's all-time leading scorer...
UCONN's coach, Geno Auriemma, apparently thought it too cruel a twist of fate. He spoke with the Villanova coach and the Big East commissioner before the UCONN-Villanova game on Wednesday, February, 25, and remedied the situation. After the opening tip, Villanova gave Sales an uncontested lay-up and hence the UCONN scoring record. Sales then left the game and ended her career...
Then, in a surprising twist, Paxon announced last week that he would retire from the House of Representatives after his term expires this year. Flanked by wife Susan Molinari and their daughter Susan Ruby, Paxon claimed that he would "never run for office again," pointing to a commitment to family as his main reason for stepping down...
Speculation about Starr's having an improper connection to the Jones case took an added twist late last week. In a story first reported Saturday by the Washington Post, and confirmed by TIME, Linda Tripp secretly met with one of Jones' lawyers on Jan. 16, the night before Clinton gave his deposition in the Paula Jones case, to tell them about Lewinsky's alleged affair with the President. That briefing gave members of the Jones legal team more ammunition for detailed questions they asked Clinton the next day, including whether he had ever given her gifts or been alone with...
Then came the next twist. A day later, the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that because there was no formal agreement between the I.O.C. and the I.S.F. to ban marijuana outright, the I.O.C. could not legally strip Rebagliati of his medal. I.O.C. medical guidelines, which ban everything from cocaine to some cold remedies, qualify marijuana as "restricted" and a substance to be used "cautiously," while I.S.F. rules name pot as a prohibited drug. Said the panel: "We cannot invent prohibitions or sanctions where none appear...