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...photo of Bruni - a startling break from Le Figaro's sober tradition - was highly controversial inside the paper's newsroom. Indeed, it was published after a last-minute order from publisher Etienne Mougeotte on Sunday evening, when he overrode the decision by the editors to feature France's Olympic swimmer Laure Manadou on page one. "This is a big bone of contention," Charles Jaigu, who covers Sarkozy for Le Figaro, told TIME on Monday. "But it is a new fact that we have to deal with." That new reality includes a sharp drop in advertising revenues at the paper...
...year.Bolstering the Black and White’s effort this season are Demers and Larsen-Strecker, two captains who have taken two very different roads to get there.Demers, in only her fourth year of competitive rowing, has progressed up the ranks rapidly. A former swimmer, Demers suffered an injury before her senior year of high school. Motivated by her uncle and parents, all former rowers, Demers left the pool and jumped into the river to row her senior year at Andover. That summer she competed for the junior national team. To say she is a natural is an understatement...
...urging of a fellow swimmer with a disability, Kolbe headed west for the national meet in Seattle the following month, where she received a formal introduction to the U.S. Paralympic swim program...
...head coach Stephanie Wriede-Morawski ’92] as a prefrosh,” she said. “But as swimmer with a disability going into a DI school, I didn’t know how I would be welcomed onto the team because I am not going to be able to score points...
Though a Crimson swimmer and busy college student, Kolbe has maintained a relationship with home coach Ewald and continues to train for international competition, often traveling to an exotic location when the Harvard team “is just heading down to Columbia,” Hart noted...