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...College’s Administrative Board and a personal audience with President Lawrence H. Summers, the ConnectU team ruled out a lawsuit in a May interview, citing the financial burden such action would necessarily impose. But after more than three months—and a rate of expansion demonstrably slower to that of Zuckerberg’s site—Narendra and the Winklevosses retained the counsel of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett and Dunner, L.L.P for ConnectU LLC. The firm is a national leader in the practice of intellectual property law, according to Christopher R. Hughes...
...most of the events. The BALCO scandal was supposed to have crippled the U.S. goal of 100 medals, which was met late Saturday night. The medals came in a torrent, and the young legs of Justin Gatlin and Shawn Crawford were almost as dominant as--although suspiciously a step slower than--those of their possibly drug-tainted predecessors. (It was their coach, Trevor Graham, who sent in a syringe of human growth hormone to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, saying he hoped to save the sport for clean athletes.) Even when Americans weren't supposed to win, they won, like...
...poignant final-place finishes, though, came from Brunei's Jimmy Anak Ahar, the Southeast Asian nation's sole Olympic athlete, who straggled far behind the pack in the 1,500 m, erasing his country's dreams of Olympic respectability. Still sucking wind after his 4:14.11 time, 40 seconds slower than gold medalist El Guerrouj, Ahar swept past reporters, his head downcast. Yet the Bruneian's performance was surely more honorable than that of Uzbekistan's Olga Shchukina, who not only finished last in her qualifying group in the shot put but later tested positive for an anabolic steroid...
...first few laps of the 25-lap race, Gebrselassie stayed with the lead pack as it glided its way around the graceful Olympic Stadium. By the 5000-m mark, Bekele, Gebrselassie and Ethiopia's third runner, Sileshi Sihine, were 1-2-3. The Ethiopian trio was soon lapping slower runners, even as the younger men seemed to slow the pace to accommodate Gebrselassie. But then he began to struggle. At 7,500 m, he fell back for a lap before coming again, fighting off pain, hoping he could run through...
...devastating floods, though, are only half the story. To the south and west, another disaster is taking shape, albeit at a slower pace. Despite seven years of poor rain, state governments have yet to produce coherent plans for rain harvesting or water storage, and existing reservoirs, channels and pipes are notoriously badly maintained. In 11 states across central and western India-including the "bread basket" states of Punjab and Haryana-this year's rainfall is 20-59% below normal. In Vidarbha region in central India, only 10% of the land is irrigated, despite continual pleas from farmers for the local...