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...DIED. FANNY BLANKERS-KOEN, 85, the "Flying Housewife" who won four gold medals in the 1948 London Olympics, the most track-and-field victories by a woman in a single Olympic Games; in Amsterdam. Blankers-Koen, a 30-year-old mother of two and the oldest woman on the track, was dismissed as past her prime before the Games. But the Dutch runner stunned critics by winning the 100-m and 200-m sprints, the 80-m hurdles and the 4 x 100-m relay...
...study the next day." John Edwards, Iowa's other love child, is standing on a plastic crate in a diner in Nashua, N.H., sharing his story and giving voters a good look at his crisp blue suit and grungy, mud-caked boots. His oldest daughter, Cate, gave them to him for Christmas to help negotiate the Iowa snows, and ever since his surprise second-place finish, he has been wearing them like a talisman. At some stops, voters were taking snapshots of his feet. But even after staff members urged him to lose the boots, he refused, and plans...
...estimated $400 million. But wealth didn't bring security to the family, which numbered 10 children. In 1966, Arkom was shot dead in what was believed to be a business dispute. The case remains unsolved. Thirteen years later, Suwapee was shot and wounded in another unsolved case. Her oldest daughter Kusuma was slain while collecting rents in 1982. Her uncle and two nieces were convicted of plotting the murder, but later they were released by the Supreme Court. Suwapee died of cancer in 1990. Disputes over her wills sparked 50 lawsuits among family members. Not long after Suwapee's death...
...Crimson (8-9-2, 6-7-1 ECAC) will resume play after a long exam period break and at the same time revisit college hockey’s oldest rivalry; today’s game is the 140th meeting between the two Ivy rivals...
BOSTON—Returning from a three-week exam period layoff, the Harvard men’s hockey team began the last third of its season against the then-No. 13 Brown Bears. The 140th meeting of college hockey’s oldest rivalry ended similarly to the teams’ first meeting this season—a 2-0 Brown win in the season opener at Bright Hockey Center...