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...announcement Liu Shaowu, the Games' security director, reiterated that the International Olympic Committee's charter states that "no kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda" is permitted on Olympic grounds. The Beijing organizers may still be faced with athletes who want to raise issues. Joey Cheek, a gold medalist in speed skating in 2006 who is now active in the campaign to end the bloodshed in Darfur, says Olympians can raise political issues during the Games and still act within the rules. Cheek co-founded Team Darfur, a group of athletes that work to raise awareness about...
...Like more established sports, competitive eating has its own body of myth (skinny competitors do better, supposedly because their stomachs have more room to expand), strategy (dunking food into juice or lemonade helps it dissolve) and controversy: when world champion Takeru Kobayashi was unseated last year by American Joey Chestnut, who ate 66 dogs to Kobayashi's 63, the Japanese nosher was allegedly hobbled by a jaw injury. ("I believed he was fully recovered," Chestnut said.) Top eaters train for months before a big event, and for good reason - this year, some 40,000 fans are expected to come watch...
...when I slept over at Joey Castellano's house and had my entire culinary weltanschauung shattered. At the breakfast table, I saw a plate of doughnuts. What else did people eat for breakfast? Ice cream? Hershey bars? Was everything outside my home thrilling, scary food anarchy...
...beneath a picture of President Bush’s face. “Luckily he didn’t go to Dartmouth,” said Hodes, showing pride in his alma mater. Ricky M. Hanzich ’11 also took the stage to speak about the Joey Hanzich Memorial Travel and Research Fund, which will provide money to juniors and seniors pursuing summer internships in an area of global or public health. Ricky’s brother, former Vice President of the Harvard College Democrats Joseph M. Hanzich ’06 died of a sudden heart attack...
...Hanzich family has] hope and belief that this is going to happen, and truly that’s very representative of Joey and everything that he’d done,” Woody said. “He was so passionate about making things better even when so much adversity was in your...