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Four years later, Andrea was on the cover of TIME (the first U.S. skier to be so honored) the month before she competed in the Oslo Olympics. She won the giant slalom, but it's her slalom victory that still amazes me today. In her first run, she missed a gate and had to backtrack to go through. She finished that run in fourth place. Yet her second run was so spectacular that her total time was good enough for a second gold medal, making her the first female skier to win two golds at the same Olympics...
White said that before the project was completed, Fogel went to work for the pharmaceutical giant, Merck...
...surprised that you rate boy as one of U2's four worst albums. It is an excellent album that many younger fans will probably continue to overlook based on articles like this one. If U2 released Boy today, critics would probably be fawning over the rebirth of a pop/rock giant rather than analyzing the band's ongoing decline. Jeff DeVito, BOUND BROOK...
...York City Giving In and Giving Back Some of the AIG executives under fire for taking fat bonuses have agreed to return the money. The insurance giant, which has received $180 billion in bailout funds, was obligated to pay out $165 million in bonuses as part of employees' contracts--prompting outrage from the public and in Congress. In all, more than $50 million in bonus money has been returned...
Cerny, a proud provocateur, recently won some notoriety with a prankish sculpture at the European Union headquarters in Brussels mocking European stereotypes - the giant piece depicts France as a strike placard, Romania as a vampire theme park, the Netherlands as a submerged set of mosques and Bulgaria as a squat toilet. But even Cerny is happy that Obama is visiting. "It's a miracle that he is paying us a visit, after all," he says. "Well, he could have gone to Brussels...