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Janica was first in the family to win World Cup races. As a 17-year-old in 1999 she won her first two, but missed the rest of the season when she tore four ligaments in her right knee in downhill training at St. Moritz. The extra work required to get fit again, including long-distance running, cycling, gymnastics and even free diving, made her stronger and she came back to win eight consecutive World Cup slalom races of the 2000-01 season, as well as a slew of giant slalom and super-Gs. Her dominance in slaloms prompted Sweden...
Janica didn't retire but the agony of losing seemed to aggravate the pain from the old knee injuries and she underwent three separate operations through the summer, returning to racing in November and slowly improving her results to a fine third place in slalom at Berchtesgaden in January. Her determination moved Ivica to say, "Janica's a great fighter. I think mentally she is the strongest in the World Cup, not only for the women...
Sophomore Jesse Jantzen, ranked fourth nationally in the latest Amateur Wrestling News Poll and seeded fifth for the tournament, took sixth place in the 149-lb. class after forfeiting his matches in the consolation rounds due to a knee injury suffered earlier in the tournament. He is, however, expected to wrestle tomorrow...
...manufacturing activity, housing sales - all up Friday, in one way or another, and the non-vacationing investors who shuffled into work on Wall Street for the last trading Friday of 2001 duly nudged all indexes north on the late Christmas present. Not only have we hit bottom, went the knee-jerk wisdom - and not only was it not so bad - we now look to have begun our trip back...
...have wondered how I can navigate the moral high road when it comes to the war on terrorism. It is all too easy to slip into an attitude of vengeance. I take consolation from the fact that there are people in this world who provide a necessary balance to knee-jerk reactions, as reasonable as these reactions may seem at first. I can only pray that I may travel the path of peace, forgiveness and hope throughout these troubled times. I will fail miserably in this task without a rational and moderate religious perspective in my heart to guide...