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...sharpshooter when his firm, Texas Utilities, won a bidding war for assets of the British power company the Energy Group in 1998. A respected veteran energy executive, CEO Nye anted up $7.6 billion to win the deal. Soon after, a cartoon in the British press depicted a Texas Utilities meter reader ringing a doorbell--dressed as a cowboy...
...Committee's medical commission; in Brussels. A pioneer in the fight against performance enhancing drugs, de Merode spent his 35-year career trying to outwit cheating athletes, and was embroiled in several doping controversies. At the 1988 Seoul Olympics, his committee stripped Canadian athlete Ben Johnson of his 100-meter gold medal after the sprinter tested positive for steroids...
...latest threat is against the children of expatriates. Since Nov. 15, three international schools in Jakarta have closed due to security alerts. The Jakarta International School has added a three-meter-high "blast wall," a "boom gate" in front of the school and protective security film over all exterior windows. It is a depressing truth, says Ken Conboy, country manager for security-consulting firm Control Risks Group, that even if such measures succeed in deterring an attack at the school, there is no shortage of alternative targets. "Terrorists go for the lowest common denominator," he says. "If the schools look...
...Lawler 1:42.49, 3. Knepley 1:44.39. 100 Backstroke: 1. Shevchik 51.39, 2. Cromwell 52.12. 100 Breaststroke: 1. Grant 57.72, 2. Lin 58.62, 3. Gentilucci 58.84. 200 Butterfly: 1. Lawler 1:51.88, 2. Smith 1:53.69, 3. Dewey 1:55.35. 50 Freestyle: 2. Krna 21.37, 3. Knepley 21.64. One-Meter Diving: 1. Rybalko 304.64, 2. Roy 274.72. 100 Freestyle: 2. Knepley 46.84, 3. Lawler 46.99. 200 Backstroke: 1. Shevchik 1:50.15, 2. Cromwell 1:53.45. 200 Breaststroke: 1. Grant 2:05.60, 2. Gentilucci 2:06.77, 3. Siroky 2:10.41. 500 Freestyle: 1. Cole 4:34.89, 2. Gray...
While the duo distanced itself from the opposition in the one-meter, the tandem blew the competition out of the water in the three-meter, with Paradise winning by 13.80 points over Osmun, who finished 40.35 points ahead of the third-best diver...