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There is a framed photograph in the coach's office at the Palmer Dixon Tennis Courts which shows Rob Wheeler sipping champagne from a silver cup at courtside after a major tournament victory...
...Wheeler, after all, used to be known to Harvard sports fans as a tennis player. He was number two in New England as an 18-year-old. Then he came to Harvard and played at number-six singles for the varsity for two years, also excelling at doubles...
...Wheeler no longer competes at Palmer Dixon. Nowadays he has a new home about twenty yards away--Bright Hockey Center. Because last night an interesting thing happened. With Harvard leading Providence, the top-ranked collegiate team in the nation, 6-3 in the third period, Crimson forward Dave Burke cut in front of the Friars' net and pushed the puck to his center. The center sidestepped one defender, beat another, and slapped the puck past goalie Mario Proulx to help sew up an eventual 8-5 Harvard...
...which is now excavated, CCI is using 20 bulldozers, five road graders, three cranes and five shovels. The star performer is clearly "Sarah," a West German-built excavator that was named after a Sudanese official's daughter. By the time the Jonglei Canal is finished, the bucket wheeler will have moved 3.5 billion cu. ft. of earth, enough to fill the Great Pyramid more than 38 times. Getting the eight-story-high, 2,300-ton excavator and its 1 million spare parts to Sudan, the largest nation in Africa and independent since 1956, was a challenging task. The machine...
...clever cover for his real mission: ferreting out Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi's secrets for his former employer, the Central Intelligence Agency. But the Government prosecutor in federal district court in Alexandria, Va., depicted Edwin Wilson, 54, not as an undercover agent but as a skilled, avaricious wheeler-dealer, exploiting contacts and expertise built up after years of "Company" service. After deliberating only 4½ hours, the five-man, seven-woman jury last week sided with the prosecutor's views that greed, not patriotism, had led Wilson to export an M-16 automatic rifle and three pistols from...