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...Canada and the United States, gold and silver medalists in Salt Lake City four years ago, both went out in the quarterfinals at Torino. As defending champion, Canada played the 20th Olympic Winter Games tournament as though doubled over by the weight of those expectations back home, displaying grim expressions, old legs and an impotent offense. By contrast, Russia embraced a youth-infused, why-not-us swagger, allowing its forwards to freelance and its goaltender to compensate as needed. Fittingly, sensational newcomer Alexander Ovechkin scored the winner as Russia eliminated Canada 2-0 on Wednesday; Sidney Crosby, his competition...
...after Opening Ceremonies that she would get to go to the ball in Torino as a last-minute sub for injured Michelle Kwan. But even Cinderella started out by sweeping the floor. The price for Hughes' invitation to the Games? Being a mule for Russian rival and reigning world champion IRINA SLUTSKAYA, inset. The two share a New York City dressmaker, and when the seamstress found out that Hughes--who lives in a Manhattan suburb--was traveling to Torino, she asked the skater to pack Slutskaya's dress too. After the family arrived in Italy, Hughes' father John confirmed that...
...March Madness. And that leaves 26 days between this Saturday night and that first NCAA contest.Why is this pedantic babble important?Well, because by Saturday night, Penn should have the bow tacked onto the gift-wrapped NCAA bid that goes to the Ivy League’s regular season champion. The Quakers will still have some work to do to make it all tidy and mathematically official, but if they can sweep two teams that they combined to beat by 72 one month ago, they’ll be no worse than two games clear with five to play.As Penn...
When he arrived at the peaceful grounds of Harvard in 1992, he quickly found himself a champion squash player. But it didn’t take long for him to realize that he couldn’t play sports forever. “I wasn’t depressed,” he recalls. “It was closer to what Thoreau says, that most men live lives of quiet desperation. I was okay, but okay wasn’t enough. It wasn’t enough for squash and it wasn’t enough for my subjective...
...found it interesting academically, but they also found that it could help them lead more fulfilling lives.” “Psychology of Leadership” evolved from a seminar Ben-Shahar taught on leadership last year. A veteran of the Israeli army and an intercollegiate squash champion, Ben-Shahar said “Positive Psychology” is the class he would have wanted to take as an undergraduate. “I ask myself in particular what I would have wanted to know, what would have benefited me,” he said...