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...judicious tactic considering the toughness of Beijing's cultural czars. (And Jiang, 39, shows no stomach for moving his talents outside of his homeland.) But the logic breaks down if you know the Jiang almost everyone in China knows: one of the toughest, most obstinate characters around, both onscreen and off. Is Director Jiang Wen really retired...
...fresh boats had little practice time before its toughest dual meet against Yale and Princeton. The Elis had something to prove after holding the top rank and winning sprints last year, only to lose the national title to the Crimson at IRAs. Harvard’s surprise victory there was no surprise, given that the Crimson has won the national title every odd year since...
Dartmouth and Penn—not 2001 Ivy cellar-dweller Princeton—were supposed to be Harvard’s toughest challenges, yet the Tigers were the team that dealt Harvard its only Ivy loss. The Crimson turned a nine-point halftime deficit into a four-point lead late in the game but couldn’t win it. Still, Harvard would never lose again during the regular season, as it came back the next day with a 20-point blowout of defending Ivy champion Penn at the Palestra going into exam break...
...same man? (The agents checked the Paris phone books and found but one Moussaoui.) At another point the field office tried to bypass their bosses altogether and alert the CIA's Counterterrorism Center; Rowley says FBI officials chastised the agents for going behind their backs. She reserves her toughest words for a supervisor who repeatedly belittled the French intelligence on the case. Rowley claims that in late August the supervisor did forward the FISA request to lawyers at the National Security Law Unit, an FBIHQ office that vets warrant proposals before passing them on to the Justice Department...
...Grant and Siilats, the toughest college competition may still await at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Grant ranks 12th nationally in the hammer throw thanks to her 59.59-meter performance from Heps, while Siilats is tied with eight other high jumpers for 10th with her 1.80-meter leap from Heps. Neither passed the automatic qualifying marks for their events, but a top-16 national finish is typically enough to make NCAAs...