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Well, naturally, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals suggested in its magazine that animal lovers voice their objections to the mayor of Torrington, Harold Ehrman, and, naturally, Mayor Ehrman said the activists could "go stuff themselves." And, naturally, my wife asked me if I intended to take a stand...
music by Andrew Lloyd Webber directed by Harold Prince at the Wang Center through September...
...much to do, so little time. The 100-m dash is at once the shortest foot race in the Olympics, the longest running and the most fabled. It has belonged to 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...
...When Harold Abrahams went to the starting line in Paris in '24, his coach, Sam Mussabini, told him, "Only think of two things--the report of the pistol and the tape. When you hear the one, just run like hell till you break the other." There is a little more to the 100 than that. Even though it's over in a heartbeat, the race has three distinct stages: start, acceleration and deceleration. The start itself has two components, the reaction to the gun and the angle of takeoff. Says Brigham Young University track coach Willard Hirschi: "If you come...
...Senate Whitewater Committee's 13 months of inquiry boiled down to a battle of spitballs, the Clintons could breathe easy. But again it's Starr who can make the real trouble. The Republicans have asked him to investigate for "possible violations of law" White House deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes, Hillary Clinton confidante Susan Thomases and Webster Hubbell, the former Associate Attorney General who is serving time for inflating billing records at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock. And after briefly trying to assign the task to the FBI, Attorney General Janet Reno has asked Starr to investigate...