Word: davises
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Shani Davis has always set his own course. While most boys in his South Side Chicago neighborhood were trying to shoot hoops like Michael Jordan, Davis was lacing on skates and speeding around an ice rink. His buddies teased him for dedicating himself to a sport that seemed so white...
Speed skating is still largely a white sport, and he has yet to get rich from it, but Davis, 23, the first African American to qualify for a U.S. Olympic speed-skating team, is now a gold-medal favorite for the 1,000-m and 1,500-m races at...
According to Marshall Goldman, associate director of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard, when prosecuting oligarchs, Putin went “too far yet not far enough.” He went after the oligarchs that did not support him, like Mikhail Khodorkovsky, yet suspiciously overlooked...
The complication for Schwarzenegger is that many of the state capital's inhabitants are addicted to partisan warfare. And trying to simultaneously keep his base happy and build bridges across the aisle is proving arduous?as shown by the reaction to his hiring of Kennedy, an openly gay former Democratic...
So in Wong Kar-wai's 2046, she plays a hardened gambler whose ego and heart get bruised one Christmas Eve. In Wong's contribution to the three-part film Eros, she is a notorious courtesan who loses her looks and luck over the course of two decades. In Memoirs...