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...Basketball Tournament],” Barlow says. “[I remember] our coach telling us that’s where we needed to be in terms of conditioning.” Both Brine and Finelli seem to share the same attributes; their relentless work ethic and shared competitive drive allow them to bleed crimson on the court, the ice rink, the field, the golf course, and anywhere else they can display their talents.“We joke around with Niki that she’s basically a machine,” laughs fellow sophomore forward Katie Rollins...
...scarce. It should be heartening, then, that ideological opposites can unite behind common causes—like more wind and solar power—even if its for contrary reasons. So what if a Hollywood director and a four-star general think differently, as long as they both drive Priuses...
...troops acting on his orders shelled the building, turning its upper half into a charred hulk, while putting down a rebellion by legislators against his reforms. And the following year he ordered his troops into Chechnya in what became a disastrous and bloody war to suppress that country's drive for independence...
...officer Vladimir Putin as his anointed heir. (Putin inaugurated his own term by launching a second brutal war in Chechnya to reverse the concessions Yeltsin had made to end the first one.) He passed quickly from the political scene into relative obscurity as Putin launched an aggressive nationalist drive to reverse Russia's decline by reemphasizing a central role for the state in economic affairs and establishing a harsh, authoritarian regime that brooked little opposition...
...reported during the 1990s that Yeltsin was an alcoholic, subject to occasional binges that kept him out of action for days at a time and led to sudden cancellations of meetings with key foreign visitors. Certainly, the challenges Yeltsin encountered in his presidency would have been enough to drive him to drink. He had to struggle back into political power without the help of the party that, though verging on collapse, still wielded considerable power until the failed 1991 coup attempt. In typical truculent fashion, he ran for parliament in Moscow instead of his old Sverdlovsk home base, taking...