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...lingering in the shadow of a now-retired rival known as Madame Butterfly. Jodie Henry, 20, was not known outside swimming circles. She, too, had experienced tough times in a short career. Her nerves could reduce the sprinting dynamo to a heaving wreck. But by the end of the eight-day Olympic swimming meet, the two Australians had come into their own - and the limelight - as the standout females at the pool, each taking home three gold medals."There were times when I never knew if I'd be able to use my arm properly again," said Thomas after winning...
...report includes a calendar prototype, which proposes a 4M-1M-4M model, with 62 days of class for each semester, five to eight days of reading period and an eight-day exam period, according to a source closely involved with the committee’s planning...
...INDIA THE PALACE ON WHEELS This eight-day round-trip adventure begins in Delhi, taking you to the Rajasthani palaces of Jaipur and Udaipur, the fortresses at Jaisalmer and Jodhpur and the Taj Mahal in Agra. The 14 coaches of the train?each of them lavishly decorated with silk and velvet fittings?are named after former Rajput states. It's a train ride, luxury holiday and history lesson all rolled into one?and a bargain at $395 per night...
...loss dropped Harvard (5-4-1, 4-4-1 ECAC) into a tie for fourth place in the ECAC and sounded a sour note at the start of a eight-day stretch that sees the Crimson skate at No. 2 Boston College on Wednesday and in Bright Hockey Center against No. 9 Massachusetts Saturday...
...been the last U.S. envoy to meet Saddam before George H.W. Bush began the liberation of Kuwait in 1991. The yellowcake story was tantalizing to hard-liners because it backed their hunch that Saddam had been trying to acquire the makings of a nuclear weapon. But after an eight-day trip, Wilson concluded that the yellowcake claims were bogus. Throughout the summer of 2002, hard-liners ignored his findings and touted the tale anyway. Tenet and the CIA tried to shoot down the story again last fall as Bush was mobilizing for war. But the President made the charge...