Word: olympiades
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Competitions: Six U.S. students win a math Olympiad...
...United States sends six kids to the International Mathematical Olympiad in Hong Kong, where a perfect individual score is 42, and together they score 252, does the country have reason to cheer...
...high-school students, started out by competing against 350,000 of their peers on the American High School Mathematics Examination, aced two tougher exams, and prepped for a month at the U.S. Naval Academy. Only then did they board a plane and become the first squad in the Math Olympiad's 35-year history to get perfect scores across the board, out- stripping 68 other nations to win the competition...
...banquet's keynote speaker was Joe Bertagna, the Executive Director of ECAC Hockey and Team USA's Assistant General Manager and Goaltending Coach during the recent Lillehammer Olympiad. He had some interesting things to says about America's Olympic hockey effort...
Even more, the case fits into an almost satisfyingly easy moral mold; the dissipative Harding, the embittered loser in the last Olympiad, and the exalted Kerrigan, the winner, could just as easily be the Wicked Witch and Snow White. The public's fascination with the case is not unlike the rapt attention that little children pay to morally simplistic fairy tales...