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...quickly," I replied. I was not trying to be mean, merely pointing out that young master Kim had picked up his flag in an ill-advised nonce, even as officials were quite obviously comparing notes at mid-ice. (His coach, Jun Myung-Kyu, took the postgame rap for getting the flag out there so fast: "I thought he had won.") There was about this tableau the air of a boy who had been bad, who knew he had been bad, and who was trying to put the misdemeanor behind him as fast as possible, hoping no one had noticed - hoping...
...love the sport, and the chance to compete at this level is beyond a dream," says Nagvajara, who has never won a race. "I was so honored, and proud, and shy to carry the Thai flag. I didn't anticipate the magnitude of the event until then. I had just focused on skiing, on training. At the Opening Ceremony I thought, Oh boy, this is huge." A professor of engineering at Drexel University in Pennsylvania, Nagvajara was inspired to take up cross country skiing and compete in the Olympics after seeing Kenyan Philip Boit come 92nd, and last...
...Disney. Crimson Key members, with their syrupy pleasantness, would fit in quite well at Disney. Clad in their bright red frocks for Freshman Week, the Crimson Key are as unmistakable as an army of Brazilian tourists in matching fluorescent yellow t-shirts marching through Disney, their leader bouncing a flag as if on a conquest of a newly discovered land...
...next election. They were asked the same question afterwards and the percentages picking Democrat, Republican or undecided didn't change. "He doesn't have a lot of coattail," concludes a senior House Democratic aide. "But we've got to be delicate because the president is still wrapped in the flag." In the two dozen hotly contested House races that'll determine whether Democrats succeed, other polls show the swing voters would still carve Bush's face on Mount Rushmore for his handling...
...company raises its dividend, profits go up for the next four years. On average, says Nissim, "when you see companies increasing their dividends, you should expect higher returns in the future." So when a firm cuts its dividend, as Daimler-Chrysler did last week, it can raise a warning flag...