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...place spot as well.Even though he didn’t win a race or finish in the top three in an event, freshman Patrick Detzner arguably received the greatest honor of the day. Every year the team selects one freshman to swim every event in one meet, called the iron man. The challenge is given to the freshman who best typifies what it means to be a Harvard swimmer, and this year Detzner received the honor.“It took us a long time to figure out who it was going to be,” Rathgeber said...
...easy. To deliver on its promise to improve security, Hamas will have to rein in the myriad paramilitary groups that Fatah and Arafat set up. Confrontations seem inevitable. "The problem is not in carrying arms but in misusing them," says the Hamas military commander. "We will use an iron fist against those who misuse their weapons." The situation is even more volatile because Fatah members blame Abbas for the party's poor election showing. Thousands of angry Fatah supporters demonstrated late last week to call for his resignation, and Fatah gunmen stormed the Palestinian parliament. Isolated and weak, the President...
...Amazon jungle, only that jungle is all around us every day. Ned took her places most women don't go, or can't, or wouldn't if you paid them. She joined an all-male bowling league. She ordered lap dances at strip clubs. She went on an Iron John--style men's retreat. She even spent three weeks in a Catholic monastery, in which she found that the ancient question "Ginger or Mary Ann?" was still being debated...
...anybody in your company so patient, so persistent, so willing to sit in interminable negotiations for hour upon hour that he would be worthy of the nickname Iron Ass? If so, send him to China; it may be where he belongs. That is one of the enormous number of practical lessons large and small to be gleaned from James McGregor's new book, One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China. McGregor is a rare breed: an extraordinarily capable journalist--he was the Wall Street Journal's Beijing bureau chief from...
...wonder Andrew Lloyd Webber didn't beat them to it. In Thatcher: The Musical, opening next month in Britain, an all-female cast will sing its way through the life of former Prime Minister MARGARET THATCHER, 80. The Foursight Theatre troupe plans to tour the nation with Iron Lady--inspired ditties like The Cabinet Shuffle. Nothing says toe tapper like the champion of free markets...