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...practice, we work on consistency and hitting every dive every time.” Giesbrecht said. “And in [Saturday’s] competition, I was able to hit every dive as well as I could. In the three-meter, I did a reverse two-and-a-half somersault tuck that was one of the best ones I’ve ever done in competition...

Author: By J. PATRICK Coyne and Pablo S. Torre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Tropical Trip Helps W. Swimming Triumph | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

...George Bush has cleaved the nation into two tenaciously opposed camps even more than his predecessors. He is the man about whom Americans feel little ambivalence. People tend to love him or hate him without any complicating shades of gray. Shout "George Bush" in a crowded theater, and people dive into two trenches. A new TIME/CNN poll shows that Americans are almost equally divided in their support for President Bush, with 47% suggesting that they are likely to vote for him and 48% saying they are not. For Bush, some of the signals are ominous: the poll shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Love Him, Hate Him President | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...month later, Stephen Bohler, 18, of Dayton, Ohio, made the same fatal dive. And on Oct. 16, Michelle Gluckman, 19, a sophomore from Brooklyn, New York, threw herself from the sixth-floor window of an off-campus apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Campus | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...want] to be a leader on the floor, make tough plays and be an emotional leader,” Rogus said. “On defense I have to take charges, dive for loose balls and on offense just make shots and be an emotional leader...

Author: By J. PATRICK Coyne, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Guarded Optimism | 11/19/2003 | See Source »

...stripped off his tattered shirt, donned a pair of antiquated goggles and slipped into the murky waters of one of the capital's klongs, or canals, to untangle debris from the propellers of riverboat taxis. The service takes no more than 10 minutes and nets him $2.50 for each dive. Luk Koong, 33, who was raised on the klongs and whose nickname in Thai means "shrimp baby," considered it easy money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fancy a Swim? | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

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