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Macky finished a disastrous 17th in the set, opening the field to last year’s national women’s singlehanded runner-up, Harvard co-captain Sloan Devlin. While Macky—the younger sister of New Zealand’s Olympic representative in the singlehanded Europe class—gave Devlin a run for her money, age and experience won out, as Devlin won the regional championship to qualify for nationals...
...knows who’s going to be the front runner for the Ivy League,” Kerr said. “We’re always in the race for the title. It’s exciting because anything can happen...
...most of its 2,200 observers from the polls, declaring "No election can be called free, fair and transparent if voters have been denied the right to monitor and scrutinize the process." Even so, the official Presidential Election Commission rejected a petition from leading opposition candidate Ayman Nour, the runner-up with 7.3%, to throw out the ballot because of the alleged irregularities. After the vote U.S. President George W. Bush called President Mubarak to congratulate him, but a White House statement offered only faint praise, calling the poll "an important step toward holding fully free and fair competitive multiparty...
...stayed on as president.) Last summer Spira hired veteran shoe developer Dan Norton, fresh from a stint with Adidas in Germany. Norton has tailored sneakers for Olympic champions like Carl Lewis and Sebastian Coe. It was like A-Rod signing with the Kansas City Royals. Under Norton's guidance, Runner's World named Spira's Genesis II shoe best update for spring...
While Google is still the forerunner in search, with 36.5% of the queries, Yahoo! is a strong runner-up, with 30.5%, and MSN stands at 15.5%, according to comScore Media Metrix. In mid-August, Google announced that it plans to raise an additional $4 billion to fund its next round of growth. The Big Three are investing aggressively in search technology, and with their deep pockets, they are likely to remain the innovation and market-share leaders for some time to come. But a crop of new start-ups, mostly clustered in Silicon Valley and Seattle, offer a glimpse...