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Princeton is led by a crop of talented seniors. Distance ace Val Kukla, Ivy champion Kate Conroy, and World University Games qualifier Danielle Stramandi will direct the Tigers’ attack...
...skis until December. Though he worked hard in the gym to make the team for Salt Lake City, last week he had to admit defeat. Which leaves Eberharter as top tip for Olympic honors. With four downhill victories this season, as well as super-Gs at Val d'Isère and Kitzbühel, Eberharter is brimming with confidence. "He's an inspiration," says American slalom specialist Bode Miller. "He's got so much experience," he adds, "he knows just how it goes...
After his Val d'Is d'Isère victories Eberharter received a congratulatory phone call from Maier and then had to endure a flurry of press demands to reveal details of the conversation, as well as suggestions that he'd won only because of Maier's absence. "I don't let myself be put under any pressure from anyone," he said. "I just do my thing. Let's see what comes of it." What comes of it could be a handful of long sought-after gold medals...
...Disunity over the measure was not limited to the left, however. Several leading conservatives - including former Gaullist Premier Edouard Balladur and former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing - broke ranks to vote for the bill, while 30 others aided it by abstaining. That conservative support reflected beliefs that French political and economic modernization lies in extending previous transfers of decision-making power to regional authorities. Earlier French devolution programs were productive. But in tailoring decentralization to regional particularities, the Corsica bill challenges constitutional tenets of national indivisibility and equality...
translated by Joel Rejouis, Val Vinokurov...