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...captain Anthony Barker, who had fallen 6-0, 6-0 to Hadzialic in the first round, came away with the "A" singles consolation trophy. His opponent, Harvard freshman Ryan Browne, who lost in the second round, was ill on Sunday and thus unable to play...
Marcie Schwalm, 26, a Bloomington, Ill., legal secretary whose parents split when she was four, illustrates Wallerstein's thesis well. As a young woman she couldn't seem to stick with the same boyfriend. "I thought guys were for dating and for breaking up with a few weeks later," she says. "I would go into a relationship wondering how it was going to end." Finally, Marcie says, a college beau told her she had a problem. She's married now, and her feelings about divorce have a hard-line, 1950s tone: "Divorce is not something I am going...
Kristina Herrndobler, 17, isn't so sure that harmony can be willed. Now a high school student in Benton, Ill., she too was four when her parents called it quits. She says she has no memories of the trauma, just an abiding skepticism about marriage and a resolve to settle for nothing less than the ideal man. "I don't want my kids to wind up in a single-parent situation," she says. "And I don't want to have kids with a man I don't want to be married to forever. I don't believe in the fairy...
While most eyes were on the harbor, the first gold medal was awarded elsewhere. It went to an American (no surprise) in women's 10-m air rifle (huge surprise). Nancy Johnson's dad was "a big hunter when I was growing up in Downers Grove, Ill., and he encouraged me when I joined a juniors program at a rifle club three blocks away." She was 15 then. She's 26 now--and a champion. At another outback venue, the velodrome, Australian cyclist Michelle Ferris took silver in the 500-m time trial...
Russia clearly asserted there were no nuclear weapons on its ill-fated submarine. One can only ask, If there were none, what did the Russians fear would be found if Western rescue assistance were promptly enlisted? We don't know if British or American rescue attempts would have saved any Russian sailors; but they deserved that chance. MIKE RICKS Bobcaygeon...