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...corrupt. The paper told Lu's tale: launching a five-day hunger strike, getting roughed up by thugs and investigating political conditions in other villages across China. When his campaign finally forced his village chief to resign in 2003, the paper said, Lu emerged as "the front runner of peasant grassroots democracy...
...offer. ? THEY HAVEN'T GOT A HOT LEADER - YET. The Tory image should sharpen when a new man takes charge in December. The party conclave got its biggest boost from the spirited horse race among five contenders vying for the job; much will depend on whether the stumbling front runner David Davis (widely deemed dull) holds off the hard-charging old gaffer Ken Clarke and the up-and-coming new boy David Cameron, who is only 38. The mere fact that there was such an open contest instead of the venomous backroom plotting of previous years prompted talk...
...hard work paid off: San Francisco University High won the state championship her sophomore year and was runner-up the subsequent year. McKinley was a decisive factor, earning all-league honors three times and picking up an all-state nod as a junior...
There is at least one late-night dark figure in Harvard Yard that freshmen need not fear. Almost without fail, a shadowy runner appears from the darkness of the North Yard at 11:50 p.m. and makes his way past Thayer and University Halls...
Before Steve Prefontaine lost his life in a horrific car crash, he was known to run “every lap like it was his last.” When he first arrived at University of Oregon, for example, he immediately became the number-one runner and juiced mad girls by giving them free Adidas kicks...