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Brunnick captured the gold with a time of 4:26.82, followed by co-captain Alex Meyer at 4:29.06. Junior Blake Lewkowitz and sophomore Matt McLean brought home third and fourth for the Crimson, respectively...
...Vancouver Olympics, which begin on Feb. 12, fast approaching, north-of-the-border expectations are at an all-time high. Canada has hosted the Olympics twice before - the 1976 Summer Games in Montreal and the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. In both cases, no Canadian athlete won a gold medal on home soil. That's right; even though Canada is very cold and was blessed with home-field advantage in 1988, the country couldn't win a single Winter Olympics gold. They didn't even medal in ice hockey, Canada's own game. (Watch a video about training...
...gone up - indeed, it grew at a surprising 5.7% rate in the 4th quarter - seeming to confirm what we've been hearing: the recession is officially over. But wait - foreclosure and unemployment rates remain high, and food banks are seeing record demand. Could it be that the GDP, that gold standard of economic data, might not be the best way to gauge a nation's relative prosperity...
...nations. The United States, viewing a nation of former slaves as a threat to slavery in the Western hemisphere, refused to grant diplomatic recognition to Haiti until 1862. The French demanded that Haiti pay an unreasonable price for the new nation to receive diplomatic recognition—150 million gold francs to French citizens who lost property and assets during the Haitian Revolution. Needless to say, repaying a debt representing five times Haiti’s export revenue for 1825 drained the government’s coffers, crippling the capacity of the Haitian state to support its large peasant population...
...Most Valuable Player of the Quebec Midget Hockey League in 2007-2008 while playing for the Lac St. Louis Lions alongside Harvard teammate Danny Biega. The following year, he was named the United States Hockey League Rookie of the year. In his spare time, he won a gold medal with Team Canada at the 2008 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament...