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...horse race with a record $6 million purse, Dubai draws 7 million visitors a year, along with big-name acts from Luciano Pavarotti to Tiger Woods. Its economy has nearly tripled in size, to $34.5 billion, in just a decade. "We have built a success story in a short span of time," says Mohammad al-Gergawi, executive chairman of Dubai Holding, the government-run conglomerate that oversees most of the emirate's big domestic and foreign investments. "In 10 to 15 years, we put Dubai...
...Penn on Feb. 11, captain Matt Stehle struggled to maintain his lofty scoring and rebounding averages from the season’s first 21 games. Stehle, who finished the season with 14.8 points and 8.8 rebounds per game, contributed just 11 points and seven boards per contest during that span, which included three of his lowest point outputs of the season (six against Yale, eight against Princeton, and nine against Cornell). Meanwhile, the 6’8 forward picked up at least four fouls in each of the games and fouled out of the Crimson?...
...whose crossover dribble and quick pullup jumper have terrorized opponents all season, shredded the Columbia defense with an assortment of pump-fakes and drives to the basket. Tay scored 17 of her career-high 24 points in the second half, including five over a 40-second span in which she completed a three-point play, stole the ball on the ensuing Columbia possession, and raced up the floor for a layup. On another play, Tay drove to the rim and, despite every pretense of going up for the basket, delivered a beautiful backwards bounce pass to a waiting Christiana Lackner...
...squad has allowed opponents to hit 41 percent of their shots from three during its eight game losing streak. In its first 18 games, Harvard held opponents to 35 percent shooting from long range. The difference even becomes more stark when one throws out the games in that span in which the Crimson came within 10 of the win. In the last five contests that Harvard lost by double-digits, the team has allowed the opposition to shoot over 47 percent from behind the arc. BIG MAN IN HIDING Since the Crimson’s 81-68 home loss...
...sense of Canada's highs and lows at these 20th Winter Olympics, ponder a seven-hour span last Wednesday. Most Canadians awoke to news that cross-country skier Chandra Crawford of Canmore, Alta., had pocketed gold in the 1.1-km sprint, a bit of an improvement on her 46th-place finish at the 2005 world championship. Then Winnipeg's Cindy Klassen and Ottawa's Kristina Groves netted gold and silver, respectively, in speedskating. That made Klassen the first Canadian to win four medals at a single Olympics (she would add a fifth on Saturday). Three hours later, Canada survived...