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...month, they elected their Prime Minister directly for the first time, and that gives Netanyahu semipresidential standing. Under the old system, the leader of the party that won the most seats in the Knesset was traditionally asked to form a government. In this case, it was Netanyahu, as the winner of the Prime Minister's race, who brought the party to power. Since the victory was his, Netanyahu believed he could largely ignore party chieftains as he dispensed Cabinet posts, choosing experts and individuals loyal to him instead...
Europeans, who are more appreciative of track than Americans, love Johnson. The French, in fact, call him "Magique" Johnson. Yet in the U.S., Johnson gets less ink than the latest winner on the Senior Golf Tour. Walk through the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, and you can find no fewer than six books about the Dallas Cowboys, including one by the immortal safety, Bill Bates. No sign of "Magique" Johnson, even though he lives in the vicinity...
...performances. Since then no one, not Evans and not anyone else, has lowered any of her three great records. At the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, the winning time for the women's 400 free was 4:07.18, nearly 4 sec. slower than Janet's time at Seoul. And the winner was not Janet Evans. She came in second in 4:07.37, behind a relatively unknown German, Dagmar Hase...
...might be possible to train seriously and still have, of all things, a life. It worked. Swimming became fun again, Evans says now. Schubert set her to training against his men swimmers. She loves this. Her freestyle pace is close to what Brad Bridgewater, the 200-m winner at the Olympic trials, does in the backstroke, and it's never certain who will win one of their training races...
Actually, she's Aileen Riggin Soule nowadays. But in 1920 Miss Riggin was the 14-year-old gold-medal winner in women's springboard diving at the Olympics in Antwerp. "At the time, I was just an eighth-grader from Brooklyn Heights competing for the Women's Swimming Association of New York," says Mrs. Soule, who now lives in Honolulu, where she still swims for the--brace yourself--Humuhumunukunukuapuaa Swim Club. "When Helen Wainwright, who was also 14, and I made the Olympic team that summer, U.S. officials tried to have us disqualified for being too young. But the manager...