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South Koreans take enormous pride in watching their speed skaters win top honors, including October's haul of 15 out of 20 gold medals at World Cup skating events in China. But national pride turned to anger last week after allegations surfaced that at least three members of the South Korean women's team may have been victims of beatings by some of their coaches. According to three unsigned letters sent to a local news agency, the coaches allegedly administered frequent lashings with plastic skate guards, hockey sticks, shoes and skate sharpeners: "Anything could be turned into a rod," read...
Questions the book explores include why didn’t Lincoln have any close childhood friends? Was he engaged in a homoerotic relationship with confidante Joshua Fry Speed? Did Lincoln take advantage of his friendship with Secretary of State William H. Seward to control foreign policy himself...
Donald preemptively defended his discussion of hot-button issues against critics who may accuse him of gratuitously sensationalizing his book. He says that no dialogue about Lincoln’s friendships is complete without Joshua Speed, whom Lincoln met in 1837 and with whom he shared everything from burlesque anecdotes to marriage ambitions to the burden of the seceding South...
...Danny Castles’ house three separate times. and i thought for sure he was coming to Harvard,” Murphy said. “I love the kid. Tough, blue collar, he had speed, explosive, humble. He’s a great player...
...recent years we’ve put on bigger events like Speed Dating, “Singled-out” and scavenger hunts in addition to smaller yard-wide and entryway events,” said Maria M. Reyes-Bonar ’06, an officer in the program. “But our budget has never increased to account for this...