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...hours before the Olympic opening ceremonies. During a training run, Kumaritashvili's sled struck an inside wall on the final turn of the luge track, and he was catapulted into an unpadded steel support column. The accident cast an instant pall over the Olympics and called into question the track's design. In the week leading up to the Games, many luge athletes openly wondered if the track was too dangerous; Kumaritashvili's father said his son had expressed concern about his own safety. After several adjustments were made--the starts were pushed farther down the track, and a protective...
...student Todd H. Elkin said that Duncan provided a vague answer to his question about the prioritization of the arts in Race...
...physical weekend, no question,” Harvard coach Katey Stone said. “But, you know, I like how our kids weathered the storm when there was a little bit of pressure put on them. They turned it right back on Princeton...
...Kremlin's answer to that question, however, does not exactly jibe with the liberal culture of Silicon Valley. In his Vedomosti interview, Surkov acknowledged that Russia is an innovation "vacuum" in a field of dynamic economies and that it needs a breakthrough soon to avoid stagnation. But when prodded about the political openness needed to encourage that breakthrough, he snapped back into the language of control. "Consolidated power in Russia is the instrument of modernization. I would even insist it is the only one," he said. "If you want to put the matter on autopilot and wait for squabbling liberals...
...strongly believe in, or genuinely scoff at, the so-called Olympic ideal - faster, higher, stronger - Georgian luge athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili died in a horrific crash during a training run. The opening ceremonies, held later that evening, were tainted. Fingers were pointed. It was a tragedy that will forever question the intelligence of selling outrageous risk as global sport...