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Kenyan-born Henry Rono of Washington State grabbed individual honors in the race, pulling in first at 28:06, just ten seconds ahead of teammate Samson Kimombwa, also of Kenya. Third place went to defending champion Craig Virgin of Illinois, who came...
After the mile mark the top teams began to show their mettle, as the top three Washington runners and Illinois' Virgin began to pull away from the rest and trade the lead among themselves...
This fall the foundation will take its first nominations from colleges and universities. One scholarship will be granted in each state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, and one for a student from Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa or the Pacific Trust Territories. On the basis of their merit and commitment to careers in public service, 53 students who will be college juniors next fall will receive the awards. Each will be good for up to four years and will carry a maximum stipend of $5,000 per year. Though less than the funds backing the international Fulbright...
...Dufresne as Philia, the courtesan who is to be sold to the great captain Miles, is properly, well, courtesanly. She's perfect as the broken-voiced dumb blonde who always gets three and five mixed up. She brings perhaps the most depth to her part--she may be a virgin but after all she's been instructed in the arts of life (which Hero hasn't been) and when she sings "I'm lovely," she really is. But that voice ain't the voice of any virgin I ever heard; that's a Weimar cabaret voice, smokey Blue Angel sultriness...
...last, a modern novel more or less about abstinence. Nightshade's protagonist, Edward Lytton, is 40, devoutly Catholic and astonishingly, since he is four years married, a virgin. He does not mind his asexual life; indeed, he is so Victorian that he can barely imagine any other. Alas, his unfulfilled young wife Amy is not resigned to her condition. She indulges in "fantasies of liquid the color of magenta, a pomegranate redness, viscous to the touch, so that one has to lick it dry." Poor Edward is clearly in for trouble...