PERSONALS

The San Francisco Chronicle
 

AUGUST 27, 1996, TUESDAY, FINAL EDITION
 

PERSONALS
 

BYLINE: Leah Garchik
 

SECTION: DAILY DATEBOOK; Pg. B8; PERSONALS
 

LENGTH: 721 words
 

 AD CRITICIZES SLURS ON ATHLETES
An ad placed by Chinese groups and other organizations in tomorrow’s New York Times ‘’strongly'’ protests ‘’frequent and incendiary'’ remarks by NBC’s Bob Costas during the Olympics ‘’on alleged drug use by foreign athletes.'’
According to the notice, Costas’ comments, including those about the Chinese team, demonstrated ‘’arrogance and inhospitality . . . deeply offended the international community, and greatly embarrassed the American public.'’ The ad demands a public apology.
Among those signing the ad: Chinese Student and Scholars Associations at Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, University of California at Berkeley and UC San Francisco; Silicon Valley Chinese Engineers Association; Chinese American Business Association; Foundation for U.S.-China Relations Inc.; Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars in Canada; and ‘’about 80 other organizations and countless individuals worldwide.'’
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 LIZA EXPLAINS: GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS
Liza Minnelli, rumored recently in the National Enquirer to have been ill and longing for death, explains it all in the latest issue of the Advocate:
‘’Good publicity is dull,'’ says Minnelli. ‘’Do you know that they took that awful picture they used of me in the Enquirer and ran it through a computer? You know how they can make you look beautiful? They can do the exact opposite, too. . . . Also, a few people should look up the word ‘menopause.’
‘’It gives you enormous mood swings, which nobody told me about. You start out loving somebody at the beginning of a sentence, and by the end you’re going, ‘You son-of-a-b– communist bastard!’ You really don’t know what’s happening to you!'’
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 FLASH
* Billy Graham, whose tribute to Ronald Reagan was broadcast during the Republican Convention two weeks ago, is a registered Democrat, says the Hill.
* Boris Okolov, 15-year-old grandson of Boris Yeltsin, will begin his studies at Millfield School in Somerset, England, this fall. ‘’There have always been people from all sorts of extraordinary backgrounds in the school,'’ headmaster Christopher Martin said. Also registered there is the 12-year-old grandson of Deng Xiaoping.
* More on the Ballet Folklorico de Mexico: Its national tour begins with an appearance at the Concord Pavilion on September 10.
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 NO TAKERS
ON O.J. OFFER
In response to reader Richard Kiiski’s inquiry about the May offer of Hal Lipset and five other private detectives to investigate O.J.  Simpson’s claims that the murderers of his late wife were in San Francisco:
About a week after the offer was made, says Lipset, he received a fax from Simpson’s investigator, Zvonko ‘’Bill'’ Pavelic, too strongly worded for a gentleman to read aloud.
‘’He could have just said he discussed this with his client and thanks, but no thanks, but his letter was very mean,'’ said Lipset.
P.S. Philip Vannatter and Tom Lange, lead detectives in the Simpson case, have signed with Pocket Books to write their version of the whole saga.
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 – WHO SAID WHAT
‘’My performance could be more dynamic. I’m a perfectionist. . . . I can always hear places where I could play better. I’ve heard that in everything I’ve done. There’ve been a few times in my career where I find a performance and things are completely magical. One tries to make that happen all the time, even though the odds are against it. That’s where I’m coming from.'’
Saxophonist Sonny Rollins about his new album, ‘’+3,'’ in Musician magazine.
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 FAMILY’S EFFECT ON SCHOLARSHIP
Almost half the parents of American schoolchildren are divorced, but at elite schools, says a study reported in Health magazine, the figure is only 10 percent.
Does divorce interfere with academic achievement? According to economists Jennifer Gerner and Dean Lillard of Cornell University, who studied data from 27,000 students, children whose parents are divorced or separated are half as likely as those whose parents are together to attend one of the 50 top colleges in the country.
‘’We knew that a divorce at home tends to lower a student’s grade point average and SAT scores, so we expected a difference,'’ Gerner told the magazine, ‘’but not one this large.'’
P.S. Publisher Dan Couvrette and editor Diana Shepherd of the new quarterly called Divorce used to work together at Wedding Bells magazine.
 

LOAD-DATE: August 27, 1996
 

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
 

GRAPHIC: PHOTO,Minnelli, blames hormones

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