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There is no guarantee that Arazi will continue his winning ways. As Sheik Mohammed points out, "He could get a headache or a cold and lose, as other great horses have." Yet extending his string of victories would not only bring glory but give a lift to the depressed international racing industry. Track attendance -- and prices at horse auctions -- have been hit hard in both the U.S. and Europe. If Arazi can take the two Derbies or the Triple Crown, his triumph will reflect on all of racing, a sport that requires superstars at least as much as the movie...
...Boston Marathon happens to finish in Boston, but except for the last four miles it has little to do with Boston proper. The route is a journey through commuter country. You spend the first half of the race on Rt 135, which has a string of aliases: East Main Street, Union Street, Waverly Street, West Central Street, East Central Street, and Washington Street...
Over the past decade, Reed has shuttled from one job to another, leaving behind a string of charges that he absconded with company funds. Among his victims: an Illinois-based Japanese machine-tool company named Gomiya, which currently has a $600,000 judgment outstanding against him. Last month U.S. marshals seized Reed's van for Gomiya. Reed blames...
...Crimson's string of eight victories has been helped by back-to-back doubleheaders against two teams, Cornell and Dartmouth, which are on the slow and ragged road to varsity-level status...
...York City last week. As the jury forewoman chanted the verdict -- guilty of murder, guilty of racketeering, 13 counts in all -- godfather John Gotti could only sit with his thin-lipped smile frozen while the underworld came crashing down around him. In guarded talks, the Gambino family's second string scrambled to regroup, shuddering with the knowledge that turncoats were singing, the feds were listening and more indictments were...