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...lives to 73 on a comfortable $2,100 a year. The capital Mal? is no longer a squalid speck of dirt and disease between India and Africa but a genteel hamlet of cobbled roads, shoreline restaurants and tasteful coffeehouses. Gayoom boasts that he is both an environmental and religious champion, protecting reefs and 300,000 Muslim Maldivians from the twin dangers of global warming and the bikini-clad hordes who crowd the islands' 87 high-end resorts. Today, the 40,000 tourists who fly in every month are met by speedboat taxis moored in a coral lagoon and a banner...
Johnson, the 2003 high school singlehanded national champion, rattled off a streak of seven top-three performances to conclude the competition, slicing 20 points off his deficit and finishing in a tie for second with Kings Point sailor David Wright, who won the tiebreaker with his two race wins compared to Johnson?...
...Zealand’s first female prime minister and a champion of women’s and gay rights told an intimate gathering of students yesterday that the U.S. is on the right track towards social equality, but that it will be their responsibility to continue the trend of change...
...suppose, in a parallel universe, that the Ivy Champion did go to the playoffs. And suppose that—still suspending belief here—one season that team was Yale. The big Bulldogs, going up against a D-I AA titan like Southern Illinois...
They are aiming to outrace perennial heavyweight Princeton, who has been the Ancient Eight champion for four years running...