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...London Olympics, the most track-and-field victories by a woman in a single Olympic Games; in Amsterdam. Blankers-Koen, a 30-year-old mother of two and the oldest woman on the track, was dismissed as past her prime before the Games. But the Dutch runner stunned critics by winning the 100-m and 200-m sprints, the 80-m hurdles and the 4 x 100-m relay...
...fact, the issue of style and temperament has everything to do with how Dean earned his front-runner position in the first place. He was the first to correctly read the Democratic electorate and channel its anger--not just at President Bush but at the Democrats in Washington who were still playing nice with a President who was playing for keeps. But this meant he could least afford to make a mistake. Once the conventional wisdom challenged his electability, the rationale for his candidacy started to crumble, and voters went searching elsewhere. "Six months ago, they were all looking...
Among them are students like freshman Morgan Altizer, 18, of Thousand Oaks, Calif., who turned down UCLA's honors program to attend A.P.U. Altizer, a runner, says she reached her decision after she met each school's track coach. At UCLA, "they wanted to know, 'How fast can you run? How high can you jump?'" Altizer says. "Here, the coach wanted to know about my whole person, about my spirituality." The philosophy major admits she still grapples with her decision. "Sometimes I ask myself, 'Why am I at a Christian school? No one's gonna respect me [academically],'" Altizer says...
Kerry will need to stay strong as his campaign moves forward and he comes under the harsh scrutiny earned by his front-runner status. He will need to look above the minute-by-minute pontificating by pollsters and pundits. But this is a task he is ready to undertake. As Kerry himself explained to a reporter pestering about his tracking numbers on the day before the Iowa caucuses, “The polls aren’t what this is about…It’s about issues, it’s about people, it’s about...
Drums and horns provided booming spirit amidst students’ cries. While runner participation was slightly lower than most years, the Yard was still packed with spectators...