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Baker ran a NCAA qualifying time of 8:07.04 to place second in the 3000-meter run. But his performance was nullified when meet officials decided that his abrupt lane change down the stretch had impeded the progress of eventual winner Peter Hollatz. Despite the protest of Coach Frank Haggerty, the ruling stood...
What began as a promising season for the women's volleyball team ended in disappointment with an abrupt first-round exit at the Ivy tournament...
...flow has become a deluge. "It was amazingly abrupt?a year ago, suddenly everybody wanted to work in China," says Manuel Lopez, who runs one of Taipei's top head-hunting firms. Chiang Julin, a refugee from Taiwan's sagging economy, arrived in Shanghai two weeks ago with a briefcase of rEsumEs and experience in marketing for Campbell Soup Co. and Disney theme parks. "I don't think I'll return," he says. "This is where I'll make my home." Increasingly, his new home looks like the one he left behind. The area around the Gubei district, where many...
...Washington, Bush embarrassed the Nobel laureate by saying he didn't trust North Korea to live up to the missile agreement Kim has been painstakingly trying to forge with his menacing neighbor. However valid Bush's concern, by expressing it publicly he undercut an ally. Likewise, Bush's abrupt abandonment of the Kyoto global warming treaty, whatever the merits of the decision, provoked a wave of anger across the Atlantic and in a stroke reinvigorated anti-American feeling throughout Europe...
Around 1978 he had switched his registration from Republican to Democrat. In 1982 he shocked his friends with another abrupt change: he was running for Governor. No doubt his war record helped in the Republican stronghold: he not only won but wowed the state. His romance with actress Debra Winger added to his allure. Then in 1986 he surprised everyone again by announcing he would not seek a second term, despite a popularity rating of more than...