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Some viewers are protesting that The First Wives Club does little more than perpetuate destructive myths about human behavior. "It's raw sexism," insists David Usher, who helps edit a men's magazine, The Liberator. "We stereotype men and women, and they act out these stereotypes, and it goes straight into the divorce courts...
...teenage phenom who at 16 became the youngest singles champion in Open history, beating the ancient Chris Evert, 24. Two years later she beat Martina Navratilova to recapture the title. An inexhaustible baseline player, Austin helped usher in the era of brat tennis. She was ahead of her time in other ways too. At 29, she was the youngest player inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, having quit eight years earlier, plagued by a sciatic-nerve problem. Two comebacks later, she retired for good. Now married to mortgage broker Scott Holt, she had their first child, Dylan...
...even as the Games soldiered on this week, the early winners were the forces of disruption, which, instead of unity, had brought fear. The great promise of sports is that it will take us away, for a moment, from politics and usher us into a green sanctuary where hopes are fresh and struggles have no dire consequences except for gold and silver. And the meaning of the Olympics is that it puts things in a different perspective, in which sprites become giants and heroes become people once again. But the malign calculation of the bomb gave all such shifts...
...Usher. Reported by Mehmed Ali Kislali and James Wilde/Ankara
Students welcomed Bok to the Law School two years before, seeing him as the man to "usher the Law School into the '70s." Despite some dissatisfaction with the pace of change, most praised him for making important reforms...