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...It’s a hard thing to do but she got herself comfortable. She’s had a great preseason, so I had the confidence she would develop her game, and she did wonderfully.” —Staff writer Timothy J. Walsh can be reached at twalsh@fas.harvard.edu...
Seme's suggested test may seem crude, but there's a precedent for it in the world of athletics. At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, in the very same stadium where Semenya won her world title, rumors swirled that 100-meter runners Stella Walsh (nicknamed "Stella the Fella") and her rival Helen Stephens were men. After Stephens took the gold metal, the Olympics committee performed a manual check on her external genitals - and concluded that she was, in fact, a woman. And prior to the 1966 European athletics championships, female competitors were made to walk in so-called nude parades...
...Staff writer Timothy J. Walsh can be reached at twalsh@fas.harvard.edu...
...prospect of a secret trial and the possibility of lifetime sentences. Now that the government will only charge them with using "improper means" to gain access to commercial secrets - commercial bribery - the executives will have access to legal counsel and should be able to mount a defense. Sam Walsh, the iron-ore chief executive for Rio, went so far as to say that since "the charges have been downgraded ... I think that reflects what we've been saying all along: that we don't believe there's any evidence of wrongdoing...
...have detailed knowledge of the specific charges likely to be brought against the Rio executives, they describe the steel and mining businesses - in China as well as other developing countries - as industries in which "side deals" involving key principles like executives and government officials are common. Despite Walsh's assertion that there is "no evidence" against the Rio execs, the widespread assumption among steel-industry insiders with experience operating in China is the opposite - that the government will likely be able to produce evidence that is not, as a source put it, "made up out of whole cloth...