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Pollinger began racing as a tot. By the time he was six, he was scooting past nine-year-olds to become the U.S. champ. The fleet-footed freshman has flown as far as Germany to compete and has now won 30 championship titles in national contests. Recently, he won the 2005 Men’s Junior 5,000-Meter Race Walk Championships in under 23 minutes...
...become, to the point that some establishments are going so far as to limit their focus to only one ingredient. In Milan, fashion insiders are talking about Obiká (Via Mercato), a new restaurant located in the trendy Brera district and devoted solely to mozzarella. The mozzarella di bufala is flown in fresh from Naples every 24 hours. As any Italian cheese expert will tell you, after that it loses its taste...
...image off the elitism that gnawed at Fitzsimmons in the mid-sixties. Eight undergraduates work as program coordinators, and Byerly hires HFAI students to recruit for the College in their hometowns, according to Leona A. Oakes ’07, senior coordinator of the program. Some HFAI admits were flown to Cambridge last spring on the College’s dime, and last April’s prefrosh weekend featured two open forums on student life aimed at the budget-conscious...
...After the arrests, Prime Minister John Howard, whose government recently announced tough new anti-terror laws, said on Sydney radio: "The idea that terrorists are people that are flown in from another country to do their wicked deeds and then flown out is completely altered." It's now dawning on Australians that terrorism may not always happen elsewhere...
Princeton, meanwhile, has flown under the radar to a 4-1 mark, taking two of three road contests against the preseason Big Three (Penn, Harvard and Brown). The Tigers stand within two wins—over Yale and Dartmouth—of claiming their first Ivy title in 10 years...