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...Lake City. At the halfway point in Torino, China had already secured six medals, including gold in women's short-track speedskating, and looks almost certain to surpass its 2002 record. This week's action includes several sports in which China has, in a decade, transformed itself from newbie competitor to gold-medal contender, including freestyle aerial skiing, speedskating and other short-track skating events. Its success in the ice rink serves as a global warning that China has already emphatically arrived. "We have a national system, and the country has put a lot of effort into it," head skating...
...literally got out of the bus and pushed it out of the snow four times.” The effort was well worth it, though, as both teams returned with parallel victories in pocket, 21-6 over Brown and 16-11 over Penn. Princeton, another expected competitor on Sunday, could not make it because of the weather conditions, postponing the final outcome of the Ivy League Championships for two weeks, when Harvard will face them during the IFA championships in Philadelphia. Even at this point, however, the women’s team, which won last year’s title...
...Criminal Justice, and also doing a stint as chairman of the Texas Public Finance Authority Board. "He's very tough," James R. Huffines, chairman of the Board of Regents of the University of Texas System, and a 25-year friend of Whittington, told TIME. "He's a real tenacious competitor in everything he does. I hate to use this pun, but he really is a straight shooter in all sense of the word, with a real sense of right and wrong for the taxpayers...
When one of the richest men in the world invites you to a private dinner at his gorgeous $128 million London home, who would be so churlish as to refuse, even if he is your biggest business competitor? Guy Dollé says he had no reason to suspect that the Jan. 13 invitation from Lakshmi N. Mittal would be the prelude to a hostile takeover bid that last week sent half of Europe into a frenzy. [an error occurred while processing this directive...
...Bulldogs (7-4, 2-4 Ivy) 252 to 67.After day one, Harvard already had a significant lead over its big rival, Princeton, with Yale trailing far behind in the last spot.“Princeton is a really great competitor and we never expect anything less,” sophomore Jackie Pangilinan said. “We never doubt that they will come out and give it their all. We were expecting them to be a lot faster than they were, though.” The Crimson started out the meet with a big win in the 200-yard Medley...