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...Emily to medal, she’s going to have to defeat one of them, but she’s capable of doing it.” Valentina Vezzali, who, according to Cross, is one of the most consistently strong fencers in the history of the sport, is the star of the Italian team and won gold in the individual event in 2000 and 2004. Vezzali currently holds the No. 1 ranking in the world, but Cross defeated her the only time the two dueled.“It was a long time ago, and I think...
...punched in the face. But, somehow, such encounters are possible on the Internet—and the Internet came alive at MIT this past Friday and Saturday at the first-ever conference for Internet phenomena: ROFLCon. ROFLCon’s mere existence is worthy of a big fat star on the timeline of cultural history. The Internet meme, which is anything on the web—be it a video or an Internet celebrity—that gets picked up and sent around to tons of viewers, has become a new cultural genre in itself, making its way into popular...
...want to have my son graduate from high school in June. After that, I'll have forty-five days to hit my three years' time in grade, so I can retire as a three-star without a waiver...
Ricardo Sanchez, the commander of U.S. Forces in Iraq in 2003-2004, has written a new memoir, Wiser in Battle: A Soldier's Story, an account of his life and his service in Iraq. Sanchez was a three-star general - and the military's senior Hispanic officer - when he led U.S. forces in the first year of the war. He was relieved of his command by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in 2004 following the revelations of the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. In 2005, Marine General Peter Pace, the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...injustice. He answered with a rambling evasion. Others offered direct, though disappointing, replies. "That's a lot of responsibility, to ask an athlete to not only represent your country and perform and try to win a gold meal, and to have a political view," said U.S. women's soccer star Abby Wambach. "Politicians should be dealing with this stuff, not the athletes," added Paul Hamm, who will defend his all-around-gymnastics gold medal in Beijing. With a few exceptions, most U.S. athletes offered the same spin: We're going for the gold, leave politics alone...