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...CURRENCY 100 Weight, in kilograms, of the Royal Canadian Mint's new jumbo gold coin, which beat out Austria's 31-kg piece-known as "Big Phil"-as the world's largest pure gold coin $1 million Face value, in Canadian dollars, of the new coin. Its current market value is about twice that due to the surging price of gold...
Despite the clamps on freedom during the first years of World War II, the pockets of youthful defiance that Savage describes in Germany and occupied France showed a daring contempt for fascist authority, expressing it to the beat of American pop culture. The self-styled Swing Kids of Hamburg and the Zazous of Paris paid a heavy price in beatings and scalpings for growing their hair, wearing Zoot suits, and dirty dancing to banned jazz. "Instead of uniformity, they proclaimed difference; instead of aggression, overt sexuality," writes Savage, with as good a recipe as any for the teenage era that...
...order for the crew to reach the top, the leading boat on the river will have to do just that—lead. And to pace the squad, victories against top-ranked competition is a must. “We’re definitely going out there to beat crews like Yale and Dartmouth that we were close to but fell against in the dual season,” Gold said. “We’ve worked harder to find more speed in the past weeks. We’ve set ourselves up to race our best this...
...pressed the action, throwing 587 punches to Mayweather's 481. "I felt I won the fight," De La Hoya said post-bout. "I landed the harder crisper punches. I could see that I was hurting him. I am a champion and you have to do more than that to beat the champion." While Mayweather said he would retire, De La Hoya said he might continue fighting. A rematch, or at least the talk of a rematch, seems inevitable...
...most passionately fought French Presidential election in recent memory wasn't even close: Conservative standard-bearer Nicolas Sarkozy handily beat Socialist candidate Ségolène Royal 53.2% to 46.8% to succeed Jacques Chirac in the Elysée. The win also gives Sarkozy's ruling Union for a Popular Majority party (UMP) a considerable boost ahead of the parliamentary elections scheduled for June 10 and 17, where victory would give the right the power necessary to push through the vast modernization and liberalization program promised by Sarkozy...