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...title and a 9-1 season. In other words, Siedlecki restored the luster to a program that was sorely lacking, taking it about as high as one can go in the Ivies. And, as he showed, he can win games—the Bulldogs beat co-champion Brown this season, and their first three losses in this year’s 6-4 campaign were by a combined seven points...
...millions of Italians tuned into the ever-popular local version of Celebrity Survivor, or Isola dei Famosi ("Island of the Famous"). The show was wrapping up its sixth season with the coronation of the latest champion, Vladimir Luxuria, a former cabaret performer and Refounded Communist party member. In 2006, the unlikely politician became the first transvestite to be elected to Italy's parliament...
...bodyguard. Li's precocious reply - "I don't want to protect an individual; I want to defend my 1 billion Chinese countrymen!" - was regarded as a great propaganda coup by Chinese apparatchiks, whose darling he became. Li also became, at the age of 12, China's national wushu champion - not junior champion, but champion, period. He held that title for the next four years and performed in over 45 countries before his 18th birthday, trotted out like a national mascot. "I felt like I was carrying a lot of responsibility," he says. "I felt like I was representing a billion...
...Carole Caldwell Graebner, 65, a doubles champion in tennis in the 1960s, was part of the inaugural 1963 U.S. Fed Cup team and a driving force behind...
...meet of the night against Sacred Heart with scores of 6-3 in sabre, 5-4 in foil, and 6-3 in epee.The Crimson was led by freshman Valentin Staller, who won all three of his matches against the Pioneers, including a close victory over the defending U.S. Junior champion, Marty Williams, in sabre.“Valentin is one of the top junior sabre fencers in the country,” Brand said. “Valentin is a sensational athlete with a great love of fencing—not only am I his coach, but I consider myself...