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Four years is a long time in an athlete's career, and eight years at a world-class level of competition is almost an eternity. Yet it is a dozen years since U.S. and Soviet teams met at a Summer Olympics. Historians will long debate President Carter's 1980 decision following the invasion of Afghanistan to snub the only Olympics ever held in the Soviet Union. They will debate as well whether the Soviets avoided Los Angeles four years later out of fear about security, as claimed, or as retaliatory tit for tat. To most athletes, the underlying stratagems...
...Princeton search, James A. Henderson, chairman of the search committee, said his board was seeking someone who could lead the school toward academic excellence, a leader who could address the "twin targets," he said. "One is a quality undergraduate educational experience. The second is someone who understands world-class quality research...
...drop. The most arcane sports, which include many of the Olympic events, are nearly always learned late and hard, in the U.S. after playing baseball and football for a while. Speed does come naturally to the beautiful racehorses of the running track, like Florence Griffith Joyner, though at the world-class level science kicks in and a specialized knowledge is required. Hobbled running backs reach uncertainly for their hamstrings in panic, but sprinters know every muscle according to its isolated throb, like a subtle note of music distinguishable from all the others by some slight tone, especially now that...
...time was a rewrite man for the tabs, agrees that the "Brits have guts. They do things Americans wouldn't do, like taking a picture off a mantelpiece when there's been a death in the family." But Hogan defends his kind: "Listen, mate. When a world-class story in Monaco erupts, the Brits will still be sent. They charm the pants off people with their velvety lilts...
...been a dazzling bit of footwork, even for a world-class dancing man like William Bennett. Since he took office in February 1985, the brash Secretary of Education has turned himself into the most visible and surely the ) most audible member of the Reagan team. During the primaries, he flirted with various presidential aspirers who eyed him as a running mate: "I dance with all the girls," he chuckled. So was he hungry for higher office? "I'm not running for anything," he said. Amid a riptide of Administration defectees, Bennett held fast...