Word: compatriots
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...meters from where Guo was practicing, six-year-old girls from the city tossed themselves off the vertiginous diving platform, their tiny bodies tumbling through the air at up to 60 km/h. The girls were all wearing plain, baggy, black swimsuits, and some looked longingly at their famous compatriot in her sleek, purple suit with high-cut legs and a splash of sequins on the rear. One day, they might have been dreaming, they too could rise above the state and blossom into an exquisitely modern Chinese sports star...
...that had a lot of potential, but also a lot of unknowns with the loss of five key seniors last year. In fact, Ruggiero began this season as the only remaining member from the 1999 national championship team and one of two remaining Olympians-compatriot sophomore Julie Chu being the other...
...compatriot but rather an Israeli, Ludmilla Lekior, a victim of the Hamas suicide bomber who killed 17 in a bus attack in central Jerusalem last week. Lekior, who immigrated to Israel from Ukraine nine months ago and was studying Hebrew, was among the 60 wounded in the attack who were brought to Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital...
...Merchant’s compatriot, senior point guard Elliott Prasse-Freeman, who in January became the all-time Ivy assist king but didn’t find any contentment in it. Instead, he waxed about the failure his career would be if he and the rest of Harvard’s all-senior starting five didn’t secure for the school an NCAA tournament...
...Bantam Dell for a new series about an evangelical Indiana Jones. LaHaye neglected to tell Jenkins about the new deal in advance, leading some in the publishing business to call him greedy. (As with Left Behind, a working novelist will hammer LaHaye's thoughts into prose, though the new compatriot, Davis Bunn, won't take as big a cut--50%--as Jenkins did.) But LaHaye doesn't seem like a man motivated by money. Aside from driving a white Cadillac SUV the size of a tank, he and his wife of 55 years, Beverly, don't live lavishly. Their condo...