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Morabito used his car's two-way radio to notify emergency services and then did what he did best: shot a picture. The result--a black-and-white rendering of J.D. Thompson resuscitating and eventually saving the life of apprentice lineman R.G. Champion, 29--was reproduced in newspapers around the world...
...Last weekend, the crew posted a blistering time of 6:22.2, nine seconds ahead of the Big Red, the defending national champion. Considering the quality of the Crimson’s first showing, it has high hopes that simply racing consistently will bring improvement over last year’s loss to the Big Green...
...protesters, but few analysts expect they will be able to raise more than a third of that - or, more importantly, succeed in toppling the government. "Thaksin wants to provoke violence so that everyone will say it's the fault of the 'evil military' and that he is the 'champion of democracy,'" says Kraisak Choonhavan, a member of the ruling Democrat Party and a former senator. "It's his only hope of bringing down the government...
...took Round 2 of yesterday’s bout to avenge last year’s heart-wrenching championship-game defeat. The Harvard softball team (19-9, 5-3 Ivy) dropped the first game of a doubleheader to reigning Ivy League champion Princeton (8-14, 3-5), 1-0, but the Crimson bats came alive in the second game, punishing the Tigers, 5-2. It was the second straight day that Harvard failed to score in the first game, only to be revived by freshman Whitney Shaw. As she did the day before, Shaw homered in the first inning...
...President Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown—fresh off his humiliating trip to Latin America—tussled with Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the priorities of immediate stimulus versus regulation, Paramount Leader Hu Jintao quietly positioned China as the champion of the entire, unrepresented developing world. Meanwhile, President Lula da Silva of Brazil—the planet’s most popular politician, with an 80% approval rating—explicitly blamed the irrationality of white, blue-eyed beasts of prey for the financial crisis...