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...year's Scripps National Spelling Bee was an improbable nail-biter. One of the 13 finalists got reinstated after judges made a spelling error, a Canadian came in second--who knew foreign kids could compete?--and KATHARINE CLOSE, 13, prevailed in her fifth year. The eighth-grader from Spring Lake, N.J., won with ursprache. It means protolanguage. Now try to use it in conversation...
...four years. In her 127 games in a Harvard uniform, she led the team to a stunning 109-13-5 record. On the international stage, she is a three-time Olympian, earning a gold medal as the youngest member of the U.S. squad in 1998, silver in Salt Lake City, and bronze this past February in Turin. Ruggiero carries on a tradition of Harvard affiliates to participate in the reality show, including Kwame Jackson, the Business School graduate who was the inaugural season’s runner-up. Ruggiero’s Crimson ties warranted mention from reality show guru...
...even own their boats; they share them. The California Dragon Boat Association, for example, has a complicated practice schedule to allow more than 20 crews, including the City College of San Francisco and the Rainbow Koi, a team of gay and lesbian paddlers, to train on San Francisco's Lake Merced, sharing just eight boats...
...base as the company's financial statements. Attorneys for Lay and Skilling vow to appeal, and there is precedent - all the way to the Supreme Court - to attack a white-collar fraud conviction based on the fine points of the kind of jury instructions given by Judge Simeon Lake. "A 'willful blindness' instruction is a very good ground [for appeal]," says Houston defense attorney Joel Androphy. Willful blindness, which Judge Lake specifically cited in the jury instructions as a valid factor in finding guilt, means a jury can find a corporate executive guilty if he personally did not cook...
...what was going on. "In the very beginning of the trial, I actually admired both men," she said. "I wanted very badly to believe what they were saying." She said the case was like a puzzle ?with 25,000 pieces dumped on the table.? To show his appreciation, Judge Lake commissioned the courtroom sketch artist to draw a portrait of the jurors. He gave a copy to each after the verdict, along with a certificate of appreciation...