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...that Friday, at 10 a.m., the timing will become even more precise. The starter gun's first bark will launch Jones on a nine-day offensive at the Olympic Stadium in Homebush Bay. Her schedule will be excruciatingly divided and subdivided, etched ultimately by split thousandths of a second. She'll try to win five gold medals, negotiating an intricate shoal of qualifying heats, medal races, meals, catnaps, jumps and baton passes. Five golds in one Olympics has not been done by a track athlete since the Flying Finn, Paavo Nurmi, blew through Paris in 1924. Weeks before the opening...
Last week, the University of Pennsylvania became the first school to withdraw from the FLA, ending a nine-day student sit-in in the university president's office...
...University of Pennsylvania recently gave in to student demands, ending a nine-day standoff. Two sit-ins, at the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin, are still ongoing. At Wisconsin, more than 50 students entered the chancellor's office and six locked themselves together with bicycle locks. Police officers forced their way into the building and used pepper spray to subdue the demonstrators...
They said the nine-day sit-in demonstrated the depth of their commitment...
...visit to MIT was the last stop on his nine-day, six-city U.S. tour expected to draw protests of China's human rights abuses...