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...through Eni and Libya's National Oil Corp's new pipeline. But the Americans are certainly trying. The U.S. liaison office, the prelude to a real embassy, now operates out of bedrooms on an upper floor of the Corinthia. Two sparsely furnished suites serve as the temporary digs for Marathon Oil and ConocoPhillips, both of which suspended their large Libyan oil operations when U.S. sanctions were imposed in 1986. "Nobody really hates Americans here," says Abdullah Salim el-Badri, chairman of the country's National Oil Corp., which runs the huge oil fields abandoned by the Americans...
DIED. ARTHUR LYDIARD, 87, New Zealand track coach widely regarded as the first proponent of jogging as a training technique; of an apparent heart attack while on a U.S. speaking tour; in Houston. Before the frequent marathon winner came up with his then revolutionary concept--that long, slow distance training worked best to develop stamina for all kinds of running--the accepted regimen was a form of short sprinting called interval training. When Lydiard, who was initially dismissed by critics, was not invited to coach New Zealand's Olympic team at the 1960 Summer Games, he paid...
...DIED. ARTHUR LYDIARD, 87, New Zealand track coach widely regarded as the inventor of jogging; of an apparent heart attack, while on a U.S. speaking tour; in Houston. Before the frequent marathon winner came up with his then-revolutionary concept-that long, slow, distance training, or "LSD," worked best to develop stamina for all kinds of running-the accepted regimen was a form of short sprinting called interval training. When Lydiard, who was initially dismissed by critics, was not invited to be a coach for his country's Olympic team at the 1960 Summer Games, he paid...
That's particularly important on the field. "It truly is a marathon, and there are lots of ups and downs. You have to support the people you believe in, especially when things aren't going well," he says. In 2000 Kraft hired Belichick, the coach he had wanted to sign a year earlier. It cost him a first-round draft pick to pry Belichick loose from the Jets. Belichick promptly lost 13 of his first 18 games, but he eventually delivered two Super Bowl titles over the past three years...
...move on—Lord of the Rings is about to be released on DVD. And with a new movie comes a new challenge, at least for Ahn and her fellow movie-lovers. “[We’ll] see if we can sit through the 14-hour marathon.” Poignantly and somewhat disappointedly, Ahn adds, “I don’t think we’ll be decorating for that...