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Odds are, you’ve felt it. That itch in the back of your mind. Or maybe it’s a flutter in the pit of your stomach. It started in the background, and then last week it began to build. By now, it’s an all-out full-body thrill...
...largely unseen constant of elite sport is the pain of losing. The public sees the bowed heads and long faces of the vanquished, but not the deflation and self-doubt that can last for months. For sports people, the climb out of the pit happens faster when they can find some positives amid the gloom. In the case of the sailors of Team New Zealand, beaten by the Swiss Alinghi team last week in the America's Cup, that should be easy...
...forearm that reads "Jesus." "There are no other women to train with here, so I use men and it's pretty intense and rigorous," says Porto, who despite her fierce reputation in the ring is well-spoken and has a gentle manner, especially with her dog, an uncharacteristically calm pit bull named Hannah. Training takes place in the small community center in Jua, her gritty small hometown of 150,000 in the interior of Sao Paulo state. It is an all-day affair, with a few breaks for meals and rest...
...other monument. Facing certain defeat on three separate occasions, Chittorgarh's fierce Rajput occupants donned saffron robes and rode out from its iron-spiked gates to their deaths. Not to be outdone by the sacrificial heroics of their menfolk, the women chose jauhar, or self-immolation in a fiery pit, over captivity. Such tales have cloaked Chittorgarh in an aura that it retains to this day. My guide waxes romantic over the spot where the beautiful Queen Padmini committed herself to the flames to escape the Sultan of Delhi's clutches in 1303. "She is still beloved by the people...
...reforms needed by developing countries remains, as far as I can tell, quite conventional, circa 1980, with a splash of ‘augmented’ Washington Consensus thinking added in,” he wrote. “One needs to go beyond these old-fashioned ideas that pit states against markets if one wants to make progress against global poverty.” Rodrik did not respond to phone and e-mail requests for comment yesterday. Wolfowitz resigned his post effective June 30th. He was forced to step down from his position when an internal panel determined that...