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...century giants. If Korea's leap from war-battered basket case to industrial powerhouse was miraculous, Chung was chief miracle maker. He started out selling rice as a runaway teenager, set up his own construction company, then piled into everything from supertankers to microchips. His energy and drive were Olympian, his chutzpah legendary: he once sold a ship before Hyundai even had a shipyard. But like other chaebol chieftains, he fueled his empire with cheap debt and political favors, and Korea's economic crash in 1997 discredited the formula. By then Chung was dreaming of driving his bulldozers north. Taking...
Siilats' winning height at NCAAs was the lowest in the recent history of the event. Gyorffy and senior Erin Aldrich of Texas had both jumped in the 1.90's to win the title in the past two years. Aldrich, also a Sydney Olympian, had struggled all year and chose not to compete this season...
...member of the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame and a gold medal-winning Olympian, Cleary was the men's hockey coach before his appointment as athletic director. In 1989, he led the Crimson to a 31-3 record en route to what remains Harvard's first and only national championship in men's hockey...
Cole's performance in the 1000 places him first in the country in collegiate polls, ahead of Olympian Erik Vendt and just six seconds short of a national age group record. The win also broke the Princeton pool record for the event, previously held by Harvard sophomore Andrew McConnell with a time of 9:03.04. Cole swam each length in an average time of 13.4 seconds...
Christmas is just part of the pantheon, one divinity among an Olympian host of holidays that includes Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, the winter solstice--and this December, for the first time in thirteen years, the Muslim month of Ramadan...