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...difference this year is that Miller knows he's faster than anyone else running slalom gates; it's just a question of how fast he needs to be to win. So he has learned how to better manage that tiny margin of error that separates world beaters from snow eaters. "He doesn't have to go all out every run," explains Tommy Moe, who won the downhill in 1994. "When you get that confident, it's really easy to ski fast...
...seven hours to Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, the next day and won a slalom event. No other American had won two events in a row since Phil Mahre in 1983. Then, in early January in Adelboden, Switzerland, Miller won a race by nearly 2 sec. It's an astonishing margin, like winning by 20 m in a 100-m dash. He has been on the winners' podium eight times this season, compared with three last season...
Those opposed to independence strongly identify themselves with Serbia. If there is a referendum and the pro-independence parties win by a narrow margin, as some opinion surveys suggest, the no campaigners might not accept the result. "We are a peaceful party," warns Dragan Koprivica, spokesman for the pro-Yugoslav Socialist People's Party of Montenegro, "but people are unpredictable...
Harvard did, however, manage to close its gap with 10th-place Bowdoin down to just 26.5 points. The Crimson has been creeping up on Bowdoin the entire year, going from 75 points behind in the first carnival to this weekend’s narrow margin...
Harvard’s margin for error would have been much greater but for a second-half meltdown last Saturday against Yale...