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...This race was all about re-establishing myself for all those people who thought that having a baby would be the end of my career.' PAULA RADCLIFFE, who won the New York City Marathon nine months after giving birth to daughter Isla...
...being a two-varsity athlete at Harvard. In the winter, he is a diver for the Crimson swimming and diving team, and, in the spring, he is a coxswain for the heavyweight crew team. On top of those commitments, Davis completed last year’s New York City Marathon. “Each sport has its own little niche that I like about it,” Davis says. “The leadership I get with the crew team is a pretty cool thing, and the running—I like the solitude of it and being able...
...often oversimplified into a single Robert Frost-style fork in the road. We can go the well-worn corporate route, pursuing careers in finance or consulting and working 100 hours a week to afford apartments in Manhattan that, for new hires, are little more than crash pads between marathon workdays. The other option, equally dismal, is to devote oneself purely to the far-less-traveled path of public service and take on constant financial worry along with a set of seemingly intractable problems to solve. Depending on which camp a senior aligns herself with, either those who choose the corporate...
...strong performance against a tournament field packed full of players from powerful SEC schools showed “that we can compete at a national level.”Kumar, despite suffering from a fever, won a three-setter, 7-6(10), 3-6, 6-1, that included a marathon first-set tiebreaker in which he saved a number of set points. He won his next round, 6-3, 0-1, after his opponent retired due to injury, but was eliminated in the quarters, 6-2, 6-4.Ermakov won his first-round match in two draining sets...
Their talks with Thompson went right down to the wire. The HHS Secretary signed the deal in a marathon negotiation with Romney and Kennedy that ended on Jan. 26, 2005, his last day on the job, while his going-away party was getting under way. The agreement stipulated that the commonwealth could keep the money but only if it passed a universal-coverage...