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Hockey is hard because you skate on ice. In handball, you just move your legs. "It's running, jumping and throwing," says Tom Fitzgerald, who played on the U.S. Olympic team in 1996, the last year in which the U.S. fielded a team. "It's what Americans do. What's the problem here...
...Scott Fitzgerald famously observed that the very rich are different from you and me. Perhaps. But just like everyone else these days, they have been won over by the convenience of online shopping. Around 80% of high-net-worth consumers - in Western societies defined as those with annual gross income and assets of at least $500,000 - use the Internet daily, and they regularly buy products online. A great opportunity for luxury goods, right? One would think so, but only a third of the world's premium brands sell their goods online, according to a new study by consultants Forrester...
...defensive ability and do something it had done very little of during the season—get stops inside the paint. A Princeton timeout late in the game did nothing to quell the Crimson’s rising ambitions. Unger, junior forward Evan Harris, and freshman forward Kyle Fitzgerald transformed into goliaths, crashing the boards with vigor and cleaning up missed opportunities on offense. “They couldn’t guard our big guys,” sophomore guard Jeremy Lin said. “Brad and Evan were just being physical down there, playing as well...
...become Illinois's senate president in 2003, a pork-barreling, wheeling-and-dealing powerhouse. Early that year, he met privately with Obama at the statehouse. Obama had passed up various statewide races but now had found one to his liking: the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Peter Fitzgerald, a quirky maverick up for re-election in 2004. If Obama were to have any hope of becoming the Democratic nominee, he would have to overcome two weaknesses exposed in 2000: shaky support among working-class blacks and the dearth of party regulars. Jones, now president after a Democratic takeover...
...Show me a hero," F. Scott Fitzgerald dared us, "and I will write you a tragedy." For Navy seal Michael Monsoor, heroism and tragedy arrived together, when the grenade thrown onto the Ramadi rooftop he patrolled bounced off his chest; he could escape--and let it kill his two comrades--or throw himself on top of it and trade his life for theirs...