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...PHIL KNIGHT Nike's Lord of the Flyers
Winfrey, 42, had a troubled childhood, but her genius was to realize that those troubles--and similar ones experienced by ordinary people all over America--could make for compelling television. Phil Donahue invented the participatory approach to TV talk, but Winfrey brought a woman-to-woman empathy and a flair for self-revelation that he couldn't match. Ted Koppel may have set the media's political agenda, but Winfrey had a direct pipeline to the nation's psyche. She helped bring such topics as child abuse, homosexuality and marital dysfunction out of the closet and into the public forum...
...lone victory for the Crimson that day came, not surprisingly, at the No. 4 position where sophomore Phil Tseng dominated his opponent 6-3, 6-3. Tseng's victory made the final Crimson record at the No. 4 position an incredible 30-4, a tribute to the depth of Harvard coach Dave Fish's team...
Other Key Players: Tom Blake '98, Mitty Arnold '97, Phil Tseng '98, Kunj Majmudar...
...Other Hero. Would Dole really tap someone who backed Phil Gramm in the early primaries, was tangentially involved in the Keating Five savings-and-loan scandal and led the fight to open diplomatic relations with Vietnam? Not most people with that kind of resume. But Arizona Senator John McCain, 59, spent 5 1/2 years in a North Vietnamese pow camp and would give the G.O.P. a kind of Double-Hero ticket, compounding strength with strength much as Bill Clinton did with Al Gore. Dole insiders view McCain as potentially the last man standing, the one to whom Dole would turn...