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...word in Italian. Out. That's what Bode Miller was after the first slalom run in the men's combined event in Sestriere, a race in which he was crushing the competition. But after Miller completed his first slalom run, race officials said he had hooked a gate about halfway down the course-one foot was inside the pole, in other words-and he was DQed. Although in typical Miller fashion, he wasn't POed. "I didn't protest. It's all totally out of my hands, you just deal with it... I have straddled probably more times than most...
...preparation started exactly three years ago this past Wednesday. The most recent “best chance” had stumbled out of the gate, dropping four difficult Ivy road contests, and faced the prospect of eight lame duck games and a lengthy rebuilding process. The five seniors that had consistently logged 30-plus minutes a game would be moving on, leaving a vacuum of talent and experience that would take years to refill. Harvard coach Frank Sullivan looked at the strong freshman class and knew that would be his next shot. The next year would be painful. The following...
Directed by Mike Barker (Lion’s Gate Films, Inc.) 1 1/2 stars Oscar Wilde once said “Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.” This sentiment seems to hold true for “A Good Woman”, Director Mike Barker’s (“To Kill A King”) adaptation of Wilde’s play “Lady Windemere’s Fan.” The basic idea for the film sounds rather appealing—aging...
...whole pool piled into a Press 1, a Mercedes bus. It turned out that driver was also snoozing. When the First Lady's motorcade took off, we all screamed at him to step on it, but he had trouble navigating the narrow car-bomb barriers at the embassy gate, and the motorcade was nowhere to be found. Even worse, as it turned out the tail-end of the motorcade, including the ambulance and some police cars, was now behind us. Once we got predictably stuck in Roman traffic, the Secret Service press agent on board our bus told the driver...
...council then passed without discussion an order to investigate installing a traffic light and pedestrian walk signal on Mass. Ave. and Church Street, outside Johnston Gate...