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WIFE-CARRYING CONTEST...
...According to ANC custom, the leadership contest would occur behind closed doors, with the leadership maintaining a united front in public. This time, it's anything but. The two rivals and their supporters have been tearing into each other via the newspapers - albeit via anonymous leaks - for years. And then there were the two 2005 court cases that gave Mbeki cause to fire a man who had become increasingly vocal in his criticism, from the left, of the direction of the ANC government. The corruption charges relating to an arms contract were later withdrawn, and he was cleared...
...little confused as to why Walt thinks "future teams will have to integrate more, even at the expense of winning." Is it ethical to field a weaker team for political purposes and insult thousands of supporters who have paid their hard-earned cash to watch what should be a contest between the best players available? That would give the impression that in the "new South Africa" a new bigoted, stubborn political élite has replaced the old one. Stephen J. Lewis, HENFIELD, ENGLAND...
...Crimson was quick to answer, as junior Kristen Bannon deflected a shot by Shapiro into the net. A mere 53 seconds after Bannon’s tally, Cornell pushed one in to take its second lead of the game. A pair of rookies kept Harvard alive by tying the contest at 2 in the 57th minute. Freshman Maggie McVeigh, who later forced the game-winning corner, scored off of an assist by fellow first-year Leigh McCoy on a 2-on-1. Harvard’s depth and versatility this season was especially noticeable during Sunday’s comeback...
...many accounts, there wasn't just one marathon being run Sunday in Chicago but, depending on how fast you ran, three different races that came to three very different conclusions. By 10:30 a.m., the first contest was already over: an epic, exciting, down-to-the-wire finale in a men's competition that lasted just over two hours and came to a rousing photo finish when Patrick Ivuti (2:11:11) edged out runner up Jaouad Gharib by a matter of hundredths of a second...