Word: training
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...high school sophomore, he won first place in the most prestigious math competition in the country--the United States Math Olympiad. That same summer he represented the U.S. in international competition in Beijing. Now he spends his summers helping to train future math Olympians at a special camp in Nebraska...
...area presumed sympathetic to Yeltsin. Yaroslavl was the first town outside the capital that he visited after the unsuccessful 1993 rebellion failed to dislodge him from the Kremlin. Back then, conditions in the city were improving after decades of shortages, but residents still remembered taking the four-hour "sausage train" to Moscow simply to purchase basic foodstuffs, and the old Soviet-era joke was retold regularly: "Do you have meat here?" a customer asks. "No," says the shopkeeper. "Here we don't have fish; it's at the other store that they don't have meat." Yeltsin was nevertheless...
...first appeared that supplied Communists with fresh followers. I remember walking around Moscow with my friend Syoma. The city was cold and dirty. One could easily break one's leg because the sidewalks, uncleared for months, were covered with mountains of ice. The squares and the streets near train and subway stations overflowed with vendors peddling rubbish, anything to make a living. In the clumsy stalls were bottles of whiskey, packs of chewing gum, piles of sunglasses. That is what the new regime offered the citizens of this great but impoverished city. Syoma, depressed and resigned, told me how twice...
Back in 1988, when he was just another guy getting off a subway train in Harlem, Samuel Jackson caught his foot in the door and was dragged 300 ft. along the platform. He sued, and has finally been awarded $540,000. To paraphrase Jackson's character in Pulp Fiction, "You will know what my name is when I lay my vengeance upon thee...
Strangers on a Train" and "Rope," two homoerotic Hitchcock thrillers that were featured in the recent documentary The Celluloid Closet. Brattle Theatre, double-features...