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...name on their draft ballots, he will be invited to speak at the party convention Aug. 11 in Long Beach, California. Then participants will vote by mail, phone or E-mail. Independent monitors whom Perot has hired but whom he will not name will tally the results, and the winner will be announced Aug. 18 in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania...
Something about women journalists brings out the worst in a man. Ask Katie Couric. Or a pregnant reporter whom Republican Congressman Wes Cooley of Oregon threatened to punch in the nose for asking uncomfortable questions about his wife's finances. Or Mimi Swartz, a National Magazine Award winner who had the temerity to write a profile in Texas Monthly of freshman Congressman Steve Stockman, a former house painter who personifies the desire of voters to throw out incumbents in favor of the inexperienced and the uninformed. Offering a great deal of evidence, she described him as a militia-loving, ethically...
...Harold Abrahams, Jesse Owens, Bob Hayes, Carl Lewis, Wilma Rudolph and Flo-Jo, not to mention a man named Stella. Ever since Antwerp in 1920, when Charley Paddock gulped down a raw egg in a glass of sherry and defeated five rivals with a time of 10.8 sec., the winner has been declared "the world's fastest human." Basically, the race is 10 sec. that last a lifetime. Adding to its allure for the 1996 Centennial Games is the convergence of time and distance: 100 years, 100 meters. What's more, Atlanta seems to have been handed two 100th-anniversary...
...very first race in the 1896 Athens Olympics was a preliminary heat of the 100. The eventual winner of the race was a Bostonian named Thomas Burke, who after winning the final in 12.0 sec. went on to become a lawyer and a journalist; he was also the official starter for the first Boston Marathon in 1897. Americans have long dominated the event, winning 14 of 22 Olympic 100s, finishing one-two seven times and sweeping the medals twice. Interestingly enough, three of the first seven winners acquired law degrees, including Abrahams, the Brit whose 1924 race against anti-Semitism...
Since I'm a writing junkie, I picked up Writing for Story, a guide by Jon Franklin, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, on the recommendation of my summer newspaper's writing coach and on the theory that it's always easier to read a book about writing than to write oneself...