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...last year's Millrose Games--the oldest and most prestigious track meet in the country--track veterans were stunned when organizers unceremoniously bumped the men's pole vault from its traditional spot in prime time and replaced it with track and field's hottest event: the women's pole vault...
First KERRI STRUG saved the U.S. Olympic gymnastics team by sacrificing her ankle in a heroic one-legged vault in 1996. Now the gold medalist is sacrificing her summer to rescue the reputation of the country's interns. Strug has been filing, faxing and copying--and nothing else!--for Republican Senator John McCain at his Capitol Hill office. "Thousands of interns come in and go out each summer," says Strug, who graduated from Stanford in June with a communications degree and will return this fall for grad work. "Most people are very professional. Girls just have to be careful. There...
...absolutely. The leadership on both sides are really whipping this thing up. It?s sort of a test of leadership on both sides: For Gephardt, this has potential to really vault him into the national spotlight - and position him for a White House run, if that?s what he wants...
...It’s obviously very effective demagoguery,” Wrinn said. “The endowment is an easy target, but it’s not a vault filled with cash somewhere collecting dust...
...freshman Johanna Doyle, who placed second in the hammer throw at 51.84 meters-a full three-meter improvement from her performance the week before and just two centimeters better than the third-place competitor. Her points, along with a fifth-place finish from sophomore Bryce Weed in the pole vault, were the Crimson's first points of the meet to start off Saturday morning...