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Blair wins races in the first 100 m, and she was .24 sec. ahead of Ye's pace when the edges of her blades bit into the first turn. On the backstretch, an army of Blair's supporters were in full cry as she passed. "I didn't hear them," she said. When she broke the electronic finish line, Blair was .18 sec. front of Ye and had the gold. Asked about the jockeying for position and the refusal of race officials to allow her a rerun, Ye blinked and graciously said, "It is a pity...
...posting a 1:21.9 for Ye to top. With no repeat of the jostling during the lane changeover, Ye surged toward the finish line and vindication. When she lifted her head to the scoreboard, the Chinese skater had certainly achieved that. But by the incomprehensibly slim margin of .02 sec., less than the blink of an eye, Blair had won a second gold medal, making her the first American woman to take home three gold medals from the Winter Games...
Drexel won't find it easy to recoup the money. Last October, the SEC criticized the payments as excessive but not illegal. However, under the , bankruptcy code, companies can sue for the return of so-called preference payments dating back one year before the firms collapsed. "Drexel will also argue that the bonuses were a fraudulent conveyance," says bankruptcy lawyer Leon Marcus. "My guess is that some of the employees will settle, while the guys with the deepest pockets are going to fight it forever...
...reduce wind resistance, racers tuck into a fetal-like position, their noses a mere foot from the ground. They don't even breathe during the 13-to- 15-sec. run, since doing so would relax their muscles. "It is a fight against air, which feels more like concrete at that speed," says French speedster Nicolas Bollon. Officially recognized by the International Ski Federation only in 1988, the sport has had an understandably hard time shaking its kamikaze reputation. Still, aficionados contend that it is reasonably sane and safe, at least relatively speaking. France's Michael Prufer, the world's fastest...
...little people pay taxes") Helmsley and her bragging to a little person who is going to be her undoing. The sense of aloneness is born of a mistrust of underlings, which can approach Howard Hughes' isolationism. The adventure-seeking behavior can be insider trader Dennis Levine plotting to dupe SEC regulators with offshore bank accounts. Pete Rose, Gary Hart, Imelda Marcos, Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker, Ivan Boesky, Michael Milken: they all seem to have committed self-destructive acts that follow on the heels of enormous success. I have never met or treated any of them, but they...