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...1990s; in his view, the quality of the 14 teams in the Czech league slipped because all the best players were lured across the Atlantic by the higher salaries of North America's National Hockey League. But this season, thanks to an NHL salary dispute, much of the top talent is back - and so is Krejci, who has already attended more than 15 games. "They have brought the game to life," he says. "It's faster, rougher, more attractive." The NHL lockout announced on Sept. 15 has been devastating for the more than 730 players left jobless. In December...
Over in Queens, it looks like the Mets may actually emerge as the best team in New York by as early as 2006. The Mets are finally spending money on first-tier talent instead of washed-up injury risks, and greatly improved their team by signing Pedro Martinez and the five-tooled Carlos Beltran. If top prospects like David Wright and Jose Reyes develop quickly, the Mets will be dangerous...
...Ward reveal was less a civil rights crusader than an Ayn Rand protagonist: a stubborn individualist who refused to be bound by society's rules or by any group's claim on him. He didn't merely want to transcend second-class status; he seemed to believe his talent placed him in a class above all. Blackness captures how tragically he was proved wrong--and how exhilaratingly, for moments in the ring, he proved himself right. --By James Poniewozik
...loses himself in a favorite pursuit. By the end of their week at the beach, the three had plans for the first-ever conference on positive psychology, to be held in Akumal a year later--it was to become an annual event--and a strategy for recruiting young talent to the nascent field. Within a few months, Seligman, who has a talent for popularizing and promoting his areas of interest, was approached by the Templeton Foundation in England, which proceeded to create lucrative awards for research in positive psych. The result: an explosion of research on happiness, optimism, positive emotions...
...give him a ‘10’ on effort, but only a ‘1’ on talent,” Melissa A. Collins ’08 said...