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...university full of overachievers, Bill Bird found a home...
...Bird, a co-captain on the Harvard men's swimming team, was not blessed with extraordinary size or strength, but his pool prowess enabled him to overcome those setbacks and become an Eastern champion...
...stands just under six feet tall in a sport where height makes might. Similarly, Bird's 165-pound frame continually put him on the lighter end of the swimming spectrum...
...bases in Panama. Abrams had hoped Noriega would fear an invasion, but the Pentagon promptly and publicly ruled out the likelihood of combat. A reassured Noriega then easily put down a coup attempt by some PDF officers, and his troops once again employed tear gas, clubs and bird shot to end a relatively subdued round of street demonstrations. The harsh tactics, as well as Noriega's appeals to Panamanian nationalism, led to the rapid demoralization of a recently formed opposition group, the Civic Crusade...
...time for the basketball playoffs, Stanford Psychologist Amos Tversky released a study that seems to make a myth of the shooter's hot hand. "Very often," says Tversky, "the search for explanation in human affairs is a rejection of randomness." But randomness has a difficult time explaining Larry Bird. Stumbling through the lane in the deciding game of Boston's series with Atlanta, Bird made such an improbable wrong-handed hook shot that he demanded the ball back on the next play, explaining later, "I wanted to see how hot I really was." Missing only once, he scored 20 points...