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...death-defying jumps on motorcycles (and other vehicles) in the 1960s and '70s. But really the stuntman, born Robert Craig Knievel Jr., was best known, and loved, for his crashes. After a number of successful jumps - over cars, trucks, live animals - Knievel shot to national fame after ABC Wide World of Sports aired footage of him spectacularly crashing, and crushing his pelvis, while trying to clear the fountains at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas...
...When Bok sent a campus-wide e-mail to solicit thoughts on reform, making it clear that he would move on the calendar issue, Petersen was quick to credit the council’s efforts...
...Greenfield said that he believed that the cultural change on the council might have stemmed from the 2006 decision to abolish the Campus Life Committee, a key branch of the UC that had been engaged in planning campus-wide social events and services...
...Given its wide latitude to affect the outcome of the race, the EC has become as vulnerable to criticism as the candidates themselves...
...democracy to Russia, Gorbachev has emerged as a sometimes-ambivalent supporter of Putin’s largely successful effort in recent years to tighten his grip over Russian politics and assert his power on the global stage. The pro-Putin United Russia party is expected to win by a wide margin on Sunday, in large part because opposition parties have been prevented from participating in the election...