Word: medals
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Temujin was born clutching a blood clot the size of a knucklebone. His name was war booty, taken from a captive rival by his proud warrior father and tacked on like a medal to his firstborn son. But history echoes with another of his names, a title Temujin would receive 39 years later. In 1206, by acclamation of all the Mongols, he became Genghis Khan, the "Oceanic Ruler" who in the next two decades would father an empire that rolled across Eurasia, linking the Pacific Ocean to the Blade Sea as it amassed kingdoms as loot and nations as slaves...
...Harvard fell to the U.S. Women's Select Team, which featured nine players from the gold-medal winning 1998 U.S. Olympic Team, in an exhibition game...
Harvard, which won last year's national championship and is currently ranked No. 2 in the country, will take on the U.S. Select Team, which won the gold medal at Nagano in the 1998 Olympics. Face...
...this contest won't be a patriotic rivalry for everyone on the Harvard team. Instead, it will be a reunion for sophomore defenseman Angela Ruggiero, who has a gold medal as a member of the 1998 U.S. Olympic Team. That year, Ruggiero was wearing stars and stripes when the National Team went on an exhibition tour against college teams...
...Washington know that if John McCain is President, things are going to be a lot different." But there is more to the charges than that. The whispering campaign aims to turn his story against him: he's not really like the rest of us, give him a medal but don't make him President. "I attribute it all to the abuse," says a former Senator after cataloging McCain's explosions. "He has a very short fuse and blows quickly," adds a Senate staff member, part of the faceless choir that has haunted McCain for weeks now. "That would bother...