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...seen in the last five or six years, especially with Penn State,” Crimson coach Peter Brand said. “The depth of their roster was something I have not seen in quite a long time. In each weapon, in each event, they had literally a world-class fencer.”Hagamen locked up his first individual medal in New Jersey by winning 19 of 22 bouts, beating out the second and third-place finishers by just one victory. The final bout could not have been closer. The Crimson’s captain beat out Notre...
...political opponents say that Tsang has not yet shown the kind of world-class leadership Hong Kong needs and deserves. A former civil servant, Tsang was Financial Secretary under Britain's last Hong Kong Governor, Chris Patten, and No. 2 in the administration of Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong's first Chief Executive after the 1997 handover to China. Tung-who came from a Shanghainese family rather than from Hong Kong or its neighboring province, Guangdong-was never wildly popular and proved ineffectual, unable to meet the challenges of either a downturn in the economy or of the SARS epidemic...
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Having lost world-class foil fencer and junior Emily Cross to the rigors of an Olympic training regimen, it would only be natural for one to assume that the Harvard women’s foil fencing squad would be suffering an off year. After all, without Cross, last year’s NCAA champions have had to rely on a starting foil squad comprised entirely of a trio of freshman. As is the case with most sports, freshman fencers typically struggle with the adjustment to the life of a college athlete. Apparently Misha Goldfeder, Arielle Pensler, and Anna Podolsky...
...could no one have noticed until now, especially as some of Hatto's work is said to be identical to that of renowned pianists such as Vladimir Ashkenazy? Gramophone editor James Inverne says that there can be hundreds of world-class recordings of a given piece, and no critic can be familiar with identifying nuances of all its interpretations. And perhaps, more importantly, classical connoisseurs simply didn't expect plagiarism to infect their art form. "The art and literary worlds are often hit by accusations of copying," Inverne says. "We've never experienced a scandal like this before...