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Defensive stalwart and Co-Captain Bev Stickles (3-11-14 overall, 2-7-9 Ivy) joined Whyte on the All-Ivy-team first-team. All season long, her coaches and opponents credited Stickles for anchoring Harvard's blue-line, while breaking in a young fleet of defenders. Stickles received the all-star berth for the third time in her career. [See Related Story...
...brittle sunshine or in driving snow, the Games weren't mere games for those who competed. Tomba could joke about how he plans to star in Hollywood, courtesy of his new acquaintance, Sylvester Stallone. But his stalwart fans know there's more to his success than glitz, having followed Tomba's post- Calgary blues, his faltering in two world championships and his reconstruction under the severe tutelage of former Olympian Gustavo Thoeni. "I fought to win," said the husky Bolognese. "I gave the best of myself." Whether for giants like Tomba, upstarts like Aamodt or veterans like Fernandez Ochoa...
...Japan's chronic influence-peddling scandals, only some of the names seem to change. Last week another probe into the governing Liberal Democratic Party's pervasive cronyism ended in the arrest of Fumio Abe, one of Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa's most senior political allies and a party stalwart. He was seized on suspicion of having illegally pocketed more than $540,000 from the Kyowa Corp. for helping the steel-frame maker win lucrative contracts...
...that stalwart of brilliance and prudence...
Even the most stalwart defenders of Harvard's model of diversity agree that learning can only take place in the presence of communication and interaction. If those ideals are not fully met, then--if they believe the standard Harvard rhetoric--students here must ask whether they are getting the right education.Crimson PhotoHaibin...