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...Emblem is the most unlikely Triple Crown hopeful since Seattle Slew in 1977. Reineman couldn't get the $20,000 he asked for the horse as a yearling, so War Emblem went to work at places like Sportsman's Park in Illinois, a course known as a bullring. It's a short track with tight turns and bumper car tactics that tend to limit long-striding horses like War Emblem. The horse did well enough so that over the winter Reineman reportedly tried to dump him for $300,000 but again found no takers. Then War Emblem won the Illinois...
...heartbroken by the loss of my favorite racehorse of all time, Seattle Slew [MILESTONES, May 20]. He was special for the number of races he won and the winners he sired. He deserved to have a perfect retirement, to be out in the pasture every day, looking around and feeling the breeze in his mane. Maybe he wasn't able to race any longer, but he could enjoy the view and have a good time. He had a great heart, immense courage and the determination to win any race in any weather, under any track conditions. He always showed...
...With a slew of deliciously articulate quotes and good factual documentation indicating that Harvard was probably wrong in letting the incident slide, I wrote my story and went to bed anticipating a campus steeped in outrage...
Reichert thought he would catch his serial killer by reading about those who had come before: John Wayne Gacy, the killer clown of Chicago, who slew 33; Gerald Stano from Daytona Beach, Fla., who murdered 41; Randy Kraft in California, who was convicted of 16 murders. Reichert contacted police departments around the country that had dealt with serial killers, and in 1984 he flew to Florida to talk to Ted Bundy on death row. Bundy had been found guilty of killing 22 victims. Says Reichert: "Just to sit across from him and shake hands sent chills. You think, 'Just...
After years of preparation, Harvard libraries will unveil a new web-based catalog this summer that will provide users with a slew of new features—but will rid the system of telnet access...