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...Compared to last year, we’re working off of so much more momentum [heading into Ivies],” co-captain Kaego Ogbechie said. “It’s a great confidence builder for our team...
DIED. LARRY DESMEDT, 55, biker and custom-motorcycle builder known as Indian Larry who was a legend among biking enthusiasts; of injuries he suffered while performing an impromptu stunt for fans in a parking lot; in Charlotte, N.C. Once a favored subject of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who admired his "crash and burn" lifestyle, Desmedt won attention for a chopper he built in 1996 and dubbed Grease Monkey...
...accused of accepting tens of thousands of dollars in illegal campaign contributions, cash and other gifts in exchange for city contracts during his 1994-2002 tenure. Ten people who worked for him, including two top aides, have been convicted of corruption. DIED. LARRY DESMEDT, 55, biker and motorcycle builder known as "Indian Larry"; of injuries suffered while performing a stunt; in Charlotte, North Carolina. A favored subject of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who admired his "crash-and-burn" lifestyle, he was most famous for a chopper he built and dubbed "Grease Monkey." died. ALASTAIR MORTON, 66, South African-born executive...
...movie. Minor characters keep turning up--Anna's menacing husband, her body-builder lover, William's divinely cranky secretary--to keep it hopping. Anna's story that she accidentally-on-purpose ran over her spouse in their car seems preposterous. But one day he hobbles in on his cane and starts jealously beating on William. The husband may have been ill used, but he's still desperately in love...
...scion of a Japanese retailing dynasty and a Harvard graduate-is the party's best long-term hope of presenting a unified front against the LDP. His reputation as a serious policy wonk-particularly on Japan's hot-button pension-reform issue-and his history as a committed consensus-builder, they say, have made him a potent contrast to Koizumi, whom voters have begun to think of as imperious and impulsive. "Okada is a leader for the times," says Etsushi Tanifuji, a political-science professor at Waseda University in Tokyo. "After 9/11, politics in some way had to be very...