Word: beating
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...bank president who suffered from calcified arthritis of the spine, used to "sit and look out at this churchyard, and it gave him a sense of peace, because it was always green, and it was always peaceful, and it was, um, a wonderful place." He pauses for a beat. "O.K., that's the church. Now we'll see the bank...
...occasional advice to the President, and in 1989 Moi made Leakey head of the Kenya Wildlife Service. Then came drama. Leakey quit and helped form an anticorruption opposition party; Moi branded him a neocolonial racist; a state-owned newspaper tied Leakey to the Ku Klux Klan; and progovernment thugs beat him when he attended a colleague's court hearing. "How much of it was deep [hatred] and how much of it was political, who knows?" says Leakey today...
...OCIAL CLUB When it comes to money, boys and girls seem to play better together. A Brown University study tracked hundreds of investment clubs over the past decade and found that stocks picked by mixed-gender groups beat the S&P 500 by nearly 2%--that's a lot--while all-male groups squeaked past the index by 0.56% and all-female groups by 0.28%. Why the difference? Mixed clubs were often formed by co-workers, who were used to achieving goals, while single-sex club members tended to be friends, who didn't want to criticize ideas and hurt...
...Mary's should serve as Harvard's chief national rival this season and is widely recognized as the team to beat in college sailing. The Seahawks return two All-Americans and finished atop the ICYRA rankings last year. Dartmouth and Tufts are the other top New England schools...
...beat former Wimbledon finalist MaliVai Washington in his debut at the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, a grass-court tournament in Newport...