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Recuperating in her hospital bed in southwest Germany, Army Private First Class Jessica Lynch had several requests for her doctors: pink casts for her fractured legs and arm, a new hairbrush and a menu of turkey and steamed carrots for when she was stable enough to eat solid foods. She also had an urgent question: Had the story of her rescue made the Parkersburg News and Sentinel, her hometown paper in Palestine, W.Va., the one-store hamlet in the Appalachian foothills where Lynch had spent nearly all of her 19 years...
...World War II--and the first ever of a woman--the story not only made headlines the world over, but it also buoyed a nation wondering what had happened to the short, neat liberation of Iraq. Within a few hours of the news, the picture of the doe-eyed Lynch swaddled in an American flag while being whisked to safety on a military stretcher had already become an icon. President Bush--along with the inevitable gaggle of book and movie agents--sent best wishes...
Those coaches have likely noticed Welch’s role as the lynch-pin in the second-ranked team defense in the nation, his 28 points for the season and the way he anchored both of the Crimson’s special teams units...
...doubles match, Bergman and Lingman dropped a 9-8 decision to Raquel Kops-Jones and Christina Fusano. Harvard dropped both the other matches 8-5. Bajin and Martire fell to Jieun Jacobs and Jody Scheldt at No. 2, and Wang and Anderson lost to Havlicek and Catherine Lynch in the third slot...
...family tradition and because public shareholding is less well established there than in the U.S. About 85% of companies in the European Union are family run, and families have controlling or substantial stakes in many of the biggest firms, from BMW to L'Oreal. A study by Merrill Lynch and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young estimates that 2.5 million Europeans had financial assets of more than $1 million in 2001, compared with 2.2 million North Americans. There are more American billionaires than European ones, but in a comparison of the wealthiest people on both sides of the Atlantic, Cap Gemini found...