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...29th place finish in the competition. “It’s a whole different meet,” Rathgeber said of the NCAA meet. “You have to be on top of your game every single session and the competition’s so stiff.” This trip marked Rathgeber’s third time at the NCAA national championships, where he finished 11th in the 200-yard IM last year, gaining All-American status for the event. Rathgeber improved on that placement this year, finishing sixth in the 200-yard IM with...
...crack down on militants in Iraq's second-largest city. He and top security ministers traveled south as the operation got underway to supervise it in person. But the pretense that the operation was simply a crackdown on ragtag criminal elements fell by wayside as militias in Basra offered stiff resistance...
...scenes in the hospital and morgue were particularly ghoulish, with patients covered with synthetic wounds and bloody bandages wailing and moaning on dirty mattresses strewn about the floor. Even the British stiff upper lip seemed to quiver a bit as members of the response team tried to mediate in Spanish between injured countryman pleading for help and the local Dr. Giggles who wanted to take...
...Even when the authorities do act, stiff opposition from local representatives usually succeeds in frustrating those efforts. In Anhui province, for example, officials issued a rule that any project involving the expropriation of more than 20 mu (about three acres or 1.3 hectares) had to be approved by the provincial authorities. But, as Chen notes, in 10 years since its implementation the law hasn't been enforced once. "The central government has issued lots of good policies," Chen says, "but the local governments need help to implement them." That's why he and others such as the rural activist...
...wasn’t really stiff competition, but it was important that we try out rotations and try to play at an intense level,” sophomore setter Gil Weintraub said. “I don’t think we were able to do it the entire time, but at points subs came in and stepped up and really showed us their potential...