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...Tourcoing, his body - tan, lithe, tautly muscled - obviously belongs to a world-class athlete. But his gait belongs to Monty Python's Ministry of Silly Walks. His legs do a speedy, almost balletic sashay. His arms pump hard, as if daring his bottom half to go faster. The Pole, world-record holder in the 50-km racewalk, is zooming. "When I train with him," says Norway's Kjersti Plätzer, the 2000 Olympic silver medalist in the women's 20 km, "he walks and I run. He's a god - the walker." In Athens, Korzeniowski, the best racewalker...
After the day’s competition, Harvard found itself 29 points behind Princeton, which grabbed the early lead with victories in the pole vault and the 10,000-meter run. On the second day of competition, the Tigers faltered as Cornell surged ahead to victory on the backs of strong performances in almost all the field events yesterday...
...officer reported that an emergency phone had been pulled off the pole. The engineers were notified and will secure the phone with duct tape until repairs can be made...
...large construction fence that had been up at the West Door has also been removed and over the next few months, crews will reinstall the light pole, replant a new tree and regrow grass, all in preparation for June’s commencement activities...
...barred from searching open sources, such as the Internet, without first opening a formal investigation. Agents had a deeply ingrained habit of keeping information to themselves and filing paper reports. There was no computer network permitting broad searches for terms like Arabs and flight schools. The FBI's greasy pole was tilted, leaning away from counterterrorism work and toward the traditional pursuit of such crimes as Mob activity, kidnapping and white-collar offenses. Intelligence work? That was the last thing an up-and-coming agent wanted to do. "Traditional agents who weren't good on the street were put into...