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But the fact insurance and mutual fund industries^ is, we re equally proud of the ratings we get every day from our participants. Because at TIAA-CREF, ensuring the financial futures of the education and research community is something that goes beyond stars and numbers. We became the world’s largest retirement orga nization' by offering people a wide range of sound investments, a commitment to superior service, and With TIAA-CREF,you’ll get the right choices — and the dedication — to help you achieve a lifetime of financial goals. The leading experts agree. So does Bill. Find out how TIAA-CREF can help you build a comfortable, financially secure tomorrow. Visit our Web site at www.tiaa-cref.org or call us at 1 800 842-2776. Ensuring the future for those who shape it. ' Source: Morningstar, Inc., January 31, IWH. Morningstar is an independent service that rates mutual funds and variable annuities. 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CRKF certificates and interests in the TTAA Real Estate Account are distributed by TIAA-CREF Individual and Institutional Services For more complete information, including charges and expenses, call I 800 842-2733, extension 5509, for the CRKF and TTAA Real Kstate Account prospectuses. Read them carefully before vou invest or send monev. / 2/V8/ ' 1 ' —' " ' ! — • ... ■. ft ■■■* A&M is also outscoring their opponents by over 100 points (340-219). The Aggies’ most dominant game is the third where they are outscoring their opponents 118- 68, a difference of 50 points. In all. A&M has 370 points and has allowed 232. up 19 (les am The Aggies will begin their conference schedule on Friday when they travel to Lubbock to face Texas Tech. Putting Their Opponents Away The Aggies have played eight matches so far in the 1998 sea son and have played 26 games in the matches. A&M has gone 21-5 in the 26 games and has not yet played a fifth-game match. In games one and two, the Ag gies are 6-2. In the third games of a match set, the Aggies are 7-1. The Aggies have only played two matches that have gone to four games, and the Aggies have won both of them. Dominant on Both Sides In their first eight matches of the year, the Aggies have gotten the job done on defense. The Aggies on the year have 80.5 blocks while their opponents only have 50. A&M is averaging 3.1 blocks per game, more than double the blocks of the opposition. Junior middle blocker Amber Woolsey leads the team with 39 total blocks (1.56 blocks per game) and sophomore middle blocker Heather McWhirter is sec ond with 30 (1.20 per game). Freshman setter Jenna Moscovic has contributed 12 blocks on the year, as well. A&M has also done a good job of scoring on the opening serve. The Aggies have a whopping 40 aces on the year, averaging 1.5 a game, but have only given Joyner Continued from Page 9 At the 1988 trials, where she ran the three fastest 100-meter times ever by a woman and set the American record in the 200, she also set standards in track fashion. One eye-catching outfit was a purple bodysuit with a turquoise bikini brief over it, but with nothing on her left leg, a design she referred to as a ‘‘one-legger.” At the Olympics, she painted three of her fingernails red, white and blue, and she painted a fourth gold to signify her goal. At the 1987 World Champi onships in Rome, she caused a sensation by running the first two rounds in a skintight suit similar to a speedskater’s togs. Her health was a concern. In 1996, she suffered a seizure on an airplane flight from California to St. Louis. She was hospitalized for one day, and the family requested that no other details be released. At the time, Griffith Joyner, accompanied by her husband and daughter, Mary, was en route to the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Relays for high school athletes. “The Olympic family is sad dened and stunned by her pass ing,” U.S. Olympic Committee president Bill Hybl said today. “She was a role model for girls and young women in sports and her legacy will be one that in cluded kindness and an interest in children. She will be missed.” Griffith Joyner was voted The Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year for 1988 and also won the Sullivan Award as the nation’s top amateur athlete. After retiring from track in the wake of the Seoul Games, she served for a time as co-chair of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness. She began designing and modeling clothes and working with children, both through sports programs and a series of books. She was preparing for a comeback as a 400-meter runner in 1996 when she said an Achilles tendon injury halted her hopes of reaching the Olympics in Atlanta. She said the injury developed in March 1996. Later in 1996, she ended a five-year legal struggle by set tling lawsuits against her former lawyer and ex-manager. Griffith-Joyner had sued Gor don Baskin in December 1991, claiming she hired him as a tal ent agent but later found out that he was unlicensed and had prepared an unfair contract that overcharged her. A year later, Griffith-Joyner sued her former lawyer, Rafael Chodos, contending he failed to tell her he also was Baskin’s lawyer when he looked over the contract. Griffith Joyner was born Dec. 21, 1959, in south Los Angeles, one of 11 children whose father was an electrical technician and mother was a teacher. She graduated from Jordan High School in Los Angeles in 1978, attended Cal State Los An geles for two years, then gradu ated from UCLA in 1983 with a degree in psychology. She married Al Joyner on Oct. 10, 1987. For many years, she was coached by Bob Kersee, hus band of Jackie Joyner-Kersee, but Al acted as her coach after the 1988 trials. Funeral arrangements were not immediately announced. V. 0. W. This Wr: [ts who CU 1 bailer on:: ineals in tl middlebkx Dining She had a t ave been \ Imji in k risedtoset ton last u i has chan j kills wa> ' s not the f three dan a pleasant Wo i'-. a miracle. Im;hinh:: 3 a dramat ['lin :.ev, the dinirq lu -tci ;; ,earance. leva.- apartment tieo.': ttething int the Lest o dining hall of restorin pableots years. The in. on: 5 back to 0 the neu g attractive Woolse\ is so appeal isa, is that ng to a sen ce. Indeed, that Is in k oration she mem am 1 by Aggies. g the build ures is a wc " -foot A&M lately, the 1 the feeling its pitfalls. I that the bu that wayt son and thr matches ot: this team. Cowboi / plays to Giants] convenienc poft drink fc re ever was pecial atten ? dining hul machs. It is Caj EAST RUTHE: — Deion Sander: yard punt return: yard pass to set. downaslhe*^, eJ1J big plays ^ ‘ \,'| k CuntM necesn.11 ily rt on Motuiav n;r „ „ , ' >n staff memb Jason Garret: „ . . egents, edmi Is guest colur man Williams sc s ’ 8U . estco , afte. Sanders'lor: 16 opu f ns 01 boys moved towae nine-game unbe: NFC East oppon Dallas' otherf vnrd held goal: ifriyi lirn ham just before Wn OW U|. by .in n,» ^ Mathis near nudf Danny Kanel time televisic touchdown pass les of sex, Ik late in thesecon ay’sreleaseo gamer 7, but in 1 , estimony to for New York on v t any differer had a ton of tlieiii four hour ders" punt rad Clinton l a 7-0 lead early it: ipecial Prosi Fhree playsai team of lawy tin'game,Garrett,stfile Clinton’s hired Troy Aikmai a Lewinsky, Davis to put thetnt, the relea front. Cunninghan affends theju it 17-7 at halftiif s supposedtc scored with 9:20 Ton’s critics quarter on a drive ?nt is not abo\ Sanders’ catch on aft then any cit from the Dallas20. sident, shouk Sanders hadentemion under the as somewhat of a quYmally, the tes being forced to sit out«d jury hearit ond quarter because unless an indi vn. The polit ; of Clinton’s I of the large (released todm MSC 0PAS Fee Option □ mm If you chose the code... DEADLINE October 1st 1998! l^g/; You should have been sent a RESERVATION FORM to select! SIX performances this summer. It’s time to turn it in to the MSC ffj Office. If you did not receive a reservation form, you need to pick ore 1 ! in Room 223 of the MSC Student Programs Office. Your reservatid must be processed before any Season 26 Performance Vouchers cart* redeemed. It’s that easy, but hurry! (409) MSC 0PAS 845-1661 MSC OPAS will not be held responsible for costs incurred if students fail to sl /^ reservations before October 1st 1998. 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