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YOUR OPPONENT IN THE PRESIDENTIAL RUNOFF, FORMER SOCCER STAR GEORGE WEAH, HAS VOWED TO KEEP FIGHTING THE ELECTION RESULTS IN COURT. HOW WILL YOU PACIFY HIS ANGRY YOUNG SUPPORTERS, WHO HAVE TAKEN TO THE STREETS SEVERAL TIMES THIS MONTH TO PROTEST THE ALLEGED VOTING FRAUD? I do not think these allegations can be substantiated. I will sit down with [his supporters] and assure them that it is in all of our interests to move forward. I am young at heart, and I think we can convince them to come on board...
...structural change our country has lacked for so long. The renewal of Liberia means a new political order, a new social order, a new economic order. It involves far-reaching reforms - constitutional reform, land reform, judicial reform, civil-service reform, devolution of power. your rival for the presidency, former soccer star George Weah, alleges electoral fraud. The victory, which is not really mine but the people's, has been marred by these allegations, but I do not think they can be substantiated. How will you pacify his angry young supporters? I will sit down with them and assure them that...
...basketball,” she says—hoops remained a second thought.“If you’d asked me when I was younger what I would do,” Holsey says, “I probably would have said I’d play soccer.”But there was little denying her early basketball talent. In one of her first junior recreational YMCA games for an otherwise all-boy team, she scored four points—“huge, for like a second grade game,” she laughs.Her coach...
...beginning of the Harvard men’s soccer team’s season in 2004, it looked like then-sophomore Charles Altchek would be a break-out star. After some more time to develop and mature, Altchek reached that level this season and was awarded Ivy Player of the Year. The junior forward from Rye, N.Y. lead the league in goals and points with 11 and 22, respectively. In both of these categories, no other player came close to matching Altchek. His closest rivals sat more than four goals and five points behind. All season long, Altchek?...
...only did senior forward Nicholas Tornaritis have a great weekend, but he also finished out his career in style. Nicholas Tornaritis had a tremendous last game of the season—and his Harvard soccer career—on Saturday against Penn as he scored not one, but two goals against the Quakers. “This year, it was a little tougher [for the Tornaritis twins] because everyone was keying in on them,” Harvard coach John Kerr said. “But they really put this program on the map.” Nicholas Tornaritis...