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Passions were riding high Jan. 8, as the hockey team of Russia's state-run energy giant Gazprom locked horns with the Belarus national team in the final game of the annual Belarus President's international hockey tournament in Minsk. In a desperate moment, a Belarusian tripped the Gazprom captain with his stick, but the Russian scrambled back to his feet to pass the puck in a lightning movement that led to a goal. Gazprom won the game 4-3, and the cup. And well it should, smiled the Gazprom captain Alexander Medvedev, 51, because Gazprom always wins...
...Gazprom's management committee and general director of Gazpromexport, Gazprom's export arm, which accounts for 80% of the revenue of the world's second largest energy company and supplies a quarter of Europe's natural gas--and 100% of Belarus'. Medvedev's remark hit home for his fellow hockey buff and adversary--the forward who had tripped him up so uncouthly, also known as the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko. On a tense New Year's Eve night a week earlier, Medvedev forced Lukashenko to accept a price hike that more than doubled the cost of natural gas, from...
...questions his intelligence. If he were not in politics, he might have become an academic or policy analyst. Nor is Martel charging that Harper does not read, but the author says the endless government reports, bedtime stories the Prime Minister reads to his daughter, and even a book about hockey that Harper is writing, are not enough; Harper needs art. "I'm not saying he has to read all of War and Peace in a week, but to never be engaged in the imaginative work that is fiction, to not go to museums, to concerts, to ballets, to plays...
...most collegiate athletes, senior year is usually the last time they will play sports on a competitive level. However, for Dylan Reese, standout defenseman for the men’s hockey team, it was a case of one door closing, and another one opening.Just four days after Harvard lost to Clarkson in the ECAC quarterfinals to conclude its season and his collegiate career, the senior was already in talks with the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League.The Rangers had drafted him out of high school in the 7th round of the 2003 draft as a graduating high school...
...Head Pub II, but with free drinks between classes. Otherrrrrr Idea: Turn it into a gigantic single for the senior who has the most sex—or actually has sex at all. Idea: Give it to FM. Idea, Other: Make it into a laser-tag-video-game-ice-hockey play place. (other) Idea: Fill it up with water and turn it into an indoor beach area, with a real, albeit miniature, sun. Both: Spend way more money than necessary...