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...gold medallist, Frenchwoman Carole Montillet, was all but ignored by the American media, despite having the ride of her life down Snow Basin's Wildflower course. Montillet's victory was a great story - before claiming Olympic gold, the 28-year-old had never won a world-class downhill race in her life. She thrashed the competition by 45 hundredths of a second, an eternity in Alpine skiing...
...gathering space for Harvard. The reams of space encompassed in the building should be designed by the very best of architects to maximize the amount of fitness equipment and the number of student offices that can be included. This is a building near the Yard that could hold a world-class fitness facility and provide a home for Harvard’s many student groups, all while being open 24 hours...
...want to, and the state's leaders know that. So, as if by rote, they recite the advantages of living in Utah: low crime, great mountains, those five national parks, a tech-savvy population with the nation's highest per capita ownership of computers, and 45-min. access to world-class ski resorts from the center of Salt Lake. Yet the image of Paradise Postponed persists. The Mormon presence is always there in the background, a faint theme song that never gets turned off. "My parents think I am insane to live here," says Katherine Glover, 36, an urban planner...
...fictitious," Crowley says. When Rusnak failed to show up for work on Monday, some officials went to his house: he wasn't there. Keating phoned Buckley in Dublin later that day. By the time the fbi was called in on Tuesday, Keating and Buckley knew they had a world-class scandal on their hands. "This is a heavy blow," Buckley said. "It has damaged our credibility. I would be a liar if I said it hadn...
...daughter of two world-class speed skaters, Friesinger got an early taste of glory when she won the 1996 World Junior Championship. Since then, her skating has been inconsisent. Bursts of brilliance - a 3000-m bronze at Nagano, a 1500-m gold at the '98 Worlds, the 2000 European all-around title - were matched by disappointment, such as back problems that sidelined her for much of 1999 and a crash at the 2001 European championships in which she hurt her neck and her knee...