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...testament to the durability of Romania's national gymnastics school in Deva, western Romania, which dates from the communist era and continues to produce top gymnasts with only a fraction of the resources of big rivals such as the U.S. and China. The past four years have been particularly rough for national coach Octavian Belu and his team. Andreea Raducan was stripped of her all-around gold at the Olympics in Sydney after testing positive for pseudoephedrine. Over the next four years, the national team had to be rebuilt twice due to untimely departures of top talent. Belu...
...Because of the rough conditions, it was hard for us to break away right from the start,” senior six-seat Cameron Winklevoss said. “We had some contact going into the first half-mile...[but had] a healthy lead crossing the mile and a half mark. By the two-mile mark we felt the race was secure...
When Nardelli moved with his wife and four children from upstate New York to Home Depot's Atlanta headquarters, the home-improvement retailer was going through a rough patch of its own. Its co-founder and second CEO, Arthur Blank, was under pressure to leave; the company had added stores more quickly than it could properly manage, and comparable-store sales, the crucial measure of a retail chain's organic growth through existing stores, had been declining for eight quarters. Home Depot was expanding so quickly that many executives saw nothing wrong. "You had people who were enormously proud...
...Mike Hodges and writer Trevor Preston care to make clear, a car dealer (a particularly malevolent Malcolm McDowell) and two henchmen abduct and brutally rape him. Davey commits suicide, and his terminally taciturn brother Will (Clive Owen, the star of Hodges' Croupier) returns to the criminal life from a rough rural retirement to avenge the kid's death...
DIED. ROBERT QUINE, 61, versatile punk guitarist who played with Lou Reed and Richard Hell; a suspected suicide; in New York City. As a button-down law-school graduate, he lent an intellectual image, as well as stylish guitar licks, to the rough rock scene of the 1970s...