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...thrills of his prime, returns full of hope, only to be promptly reminded why he left: his body doesn't work like it used to. What Gould is doing amounts to a comeback: on April 1, aged 47, she'll crouch on the blocks beside teen-agers to contest the 50-m butterfly at the Australian Olympic Team Swimming Trials in Sydney. But it's a comeback of a type not known in Australian sport. "It's a test," she says - of what she's learnt lately about her mind and body. "A test - and a demonstration...
Joseph Massino, the restaurant's operator, is an important part of the family. The Family. The Mafia; the Mob; La Cosa Nostra. The FBI says--and his defense lawyer does not contest--that Massino is head of the Bonanno clan, one of the Five Families of crime incorporated by Lucky Luciano in 1931. It was Massino who revived the Bonannos after the humiliation of the Donnie Brasco caper, in which FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone infiltrated the gang and spent five years posing as a hoodlum named Brasco and, with his court testimony, helped send 200 Mob men to prison...
Martha Stewart is not even in jail, and everyone is looking to replace her. NBC's Today show has opened up the contest to anyone who sends in a 1-min. tape of her (or his) domestic skills. Callers vote; the winner gets a segment on the show...
...first 40 minutes of the NCAA championship game, the nation's top two women's college hockey teams—No. 1 Minnesota and No. 2 Harvard—fought an evenly matched 2-2 contest that had all the markings of an epic battle...
...second game at the East Regional in Albany is only of passing interest to Crimson fans, unless Harvard manages to defeat Maine in the early game. In that case, Cambridge eyes will be glued to the outcome of the Ohio State-Wisconsin contest which starts at 8:30 p.m. and determines what team will face the Maine-Harvard winner...