Word: antonios
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That was a sign that Rogge is determined to depart from the laissez-faire ethics of his predecessor, Juan Antonio Samaranch. An even better sign will be an aggressive reform of Olympic judging. But for now it's plain at least that he means to distinguish himself from Samaranch, who winked at controversies such as the bribery scandals that led up to the choice of Salt Lake City as the site of this year's Winter Games and routinely ignored reports of bogus judging. Rogge understands that the value of the Olympic brand is on the line. He was determined...
Last Friday former Master of Yale’s Saybrook College Antonio C. Lasaga, a notable geologist, was sentenced in state court to serve 20 years in prison for molesting a young boy whom he was mentoring. Yet the real surprise came prior to the sentencing, when Lasaga was defended by three of his eminent professorial peers, including Harvard’s own Dudley Professor of Economic Geology Heinrich D. Holland...
...Antonio C. Lasaga, an award-winning geochemist who taught at Yale for almost 15 years, was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday after he plead no contest to charges of sexual assault, employing a minor in an obscene performance and risk of injury to a minor in New Haven Superior Court last month...
...American plane earned him criticism at home, in online chat rooms and on university campuses. When the bugging story broke in the Western press--the sources apparently were Chinese military officers--Jiang's embarrassing little plane problem suddenly became a mortifying security debacle. During the entire refitting in San Antonio, Texas, the plane was guarded by no fewer than 20 People's Liberation Army soldiers. "If the P.L.A. allowed the bugging to happen, they failed on a massive level," says a Western military attache in Beijing. But the incident may be more about corruption than ineptitude. The military sources...
...That was a sign that Rogge is determined to depart from the laissez-faire ethics of his predecessor, Juan Antonio Samaranch. An even better sign will be an aggressive reform of Olympic judging. But for now it's plain at least that he means to distinguish himself from Samaranch, who winked at controversies such as the bribery scandals that led up to the choice of Salt Lake City as the site of this year's Winter Games and routinely ignored reports of bogus judging. Rogge understands that the value of the Olympic brand is on the line. He was determined...