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NAMES IN THE NEWS

          SERENA WILLIAMS, on SI alluding to "family tension"
     between her and sister VENUS following Serena's U.S. Open
     win: "I don't see any tension between the both of us" (SAN
     JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 9/17)....Comets G JEN RIZZOTTI was named
     coach of the Univ. of Hartford's women's basketball team
     today.  In Hartford, Schubert & Riley note "it would be
     nearly impossible to be a college head coach and WNBA player
     at the same time" (HARTFORD COURANT, 9/17)....GEORGE
     magazine lists MIA HAMM among its 20 Most Fascinating Women
     in Politics and writes, "It took a self-effacing Air Force
     brat to beat men at their own game."  Hamm is a "new kind of
     athlete, a product of Title IX" (GEORGE, 9/99 issue)....SMI
     President HUMPY WHEELER will receive the Charlotte Chamber's
     '99 Chairmen's Entrepreneur Award (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER,
     9/11)....BROOKE SHIELDS was a guest on the "Tonight Show"
     last night.  Shields, on her divorce from ANDRE AGASSI: "The
     one thing that I did stipulate in the whole divorce was that
     he still had to watch `Suddenly Susan'" (NBC, 9/16).  

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