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...decision for someone like Sarah Hughes, who has already won an Olympic gold medal, should be altogether different,” Young said...
When American figure skater Sarah Hughes defeated highly favored Michelle Kwan in the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, winning a gold medal at the age of 16, she had her mind on another great challenge: beating Ivy League acceptance odds and getting into Harvard...
...When she won the gold medal I was standing right outside of the rink, completely shocked, going ecstatic, bonkers,” he said. “But I knew deep inside of me that she could do it, that it had to happen at that moment...
DIED. KIM GALLAGHER, 38, who bested chronic illness to win two Olympic medals in the 800-m race; of a stroke, after battling cancer of the stomach and colon; in Philadelphia. She underwent surgery for ovarian cysts six months before her silver-medal win in Los Angeles in 1984. Her 1988 time in Seoul is still the third fastest by an American woman in that race...
Rawls’ contribution to his profession earned him mountains of praise: an honorary Doctorate of Laws from Harvard, a National Humanities Medal, professorships at presitigious universities across America, all beginning with a Fulbright Scholarship at Oxford. But more than any of the honors and esteem that Rawls earned, his lasting legacy will be immortalized in the students whose intellectual and moral lives he shaped with his teaching, mentoring and advising...