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...fall, the department will boast four and a half full-time equivalent positions for teaching visitors—including visiting professors of Australian and Canadian studies—in comparison to the one and half FTEs in the department this year, according to Economics Department Chair John Y. Campbell...
...concluded, attention will switch to the British capital - which was awarded the 2012 Summer Games five years ago - as it races to get ready. Learning from the last host city will be vital. While the sports on show in London will be different from those in Vancouver, the Canadian city's experience "gives us real food for thought," Sebastian Coe, chairman of London's organizing committee, told reporters ahead of the closing ceremony on Feb. 28. London, he said, would "use this information to ensure we stage a Games for everyone." (See the top 10 memorable moments of the Winter...
...host cities have made a big deal of being all about the sports while treating merchandising like a necessary evil. Vancouver proved it doesn't have to be that way. The enormous success of the red mittens - sales of the $10 gloves generated more than $12 million for Canadian sports - "helped us clarify our thinking around what could become the iconic collector's item of the Games," says Manning-Cooper. 2012 umbrella, anyone...
...able to feed off of the pressure and channel it, whether playing the 9th match when the Harvard team faces a 4-4 tie (where he has never lost) or the finals of the Canadian under-19 National Championship (which...
...bother straining the scalp? Nearly eight minutes into overtime, Canadian Jarome Iginla, probably the team's second-most recognizable and beloved star, shoveled a neat pass to Sidney Crosby, No. 1, the modern-day Great One. Crosby's shot slipped through the wickets of American goaltender Ryan Miller, who was so terrific throughout the Olympics that he was named tournament MVP long before the game was decided. Iginla to Crosby for the gold medal? Are you kidding me? "You're going to see a lot of kids growing up now, dreaming they were Sidney Crosby, scoring in overtime...