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...tone for us junior-high wisecrackers that resonates to this day in our inner monologues and in our snap-dash dinner-table zappers. Give us enough gag writers (reportedly underpaid and overworked in his case) and a vast file of jokes (which he stored in a fireproof vault), and we thought we might, on a good night...
...referee, not a female referee. That will be a measure of success." An Olympic Dry Run In Paris Take your marks. On Aug. 23, track and field's finest will gather in Paris for the biennial World Championships. For nine days, they will run, hurdle, jump, put, vault and throw for the gold, silver and bronze. Real competition, but to many athletes, it will be a very public practice session. "Everything leads to the Olympics," says Max Jones, the British team's performance director. "Paris is almost a dress rehearsal." The results from the Worlds will help shape...
...Abit palace on the banks of the Tigris, U.S. soldiers are sorting through rubble, putting together matching pairs of Uday's many shoes to give to Iraqi workmen. In a dark recess of one of the complex's stone-lined corridors is a steel door opening onto a vault painted dark green. It was here, his associates say, that Uday tucked away the admonishing letter from his father. It was a letter he couldn't destroy but never wanted to see again. A letter that proved his father's disappointment in his elder son. The vault is empty now, cleaned...
...staff H.R. Haldeman about the Watergate break-in; in Washington, D.C. Technical efforts to recover the lost segment of the tape, believed to have been erased by Nixon, by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration have been abandoned, although the tape will be preserved in a climate-controlled vault...
Rounding out the field events for the Harvard women was junior Andrea Li, who placed fourth in the pole vault (3.36 meters...