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...It’s an absolute honor to even be mentioned among those two people [Harkness and Jantzen],” O’Connor said. “The history of Harvard wrestling extends far beyond what I’ve done for the program...
...lament about Mexico is that it's "so far from God, so close to the United States." These days it might be more apt to say that Mexico looks so far from Latin America. Mexico was once the region's vocero, its spokesman. But in the past decade, the country's diplomatic role seems to have fallen aside - apparent in Mexico's failure to engage with the coup crisis in Honduras last year - and has been assumed by its South American rival Brazil. In fact, says a senior Mexican official, President Felipe Calderón and his compatriots...
...professor now. How do your students react to your past? So far, so good. Most of my students are writers, and they can see my book from a literary standpoint and appreciate it as a literary work. Sure, I walk into class to very wide eyes sometimes, but I am very forthright with my students and clear about my belief that you cannot attach a specific value to any kind of experience. Especially as a writer. Anything that challenges me, that makes me see the world in a more generous, nuanced way, is valuable - necessary, even, as an artist...
...causing irreversible damage to the region's ecosystem. Greenpeace Russia followed with a statement a day later, reporting that the Mzymta River valley running between the planned Olympic venues is being polluted with heavy metals and industrial waste, destroying the habitats of the local bear and bird populations. "So far, practically everything that we supposedly agreed to with the government and the contractors has in the best case remained only on paper," the group said. Both Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Federation have broken off ties with Russia's state-owned Olympstroi construction firm, citing an unwillingness of the company...
...despite all the problems, Putin insists that everything in Sochi is fine. "So far, both the timeline and the financing [are] going according to plan," he told RIA Novosti last month. For him, the stakes are enormous, as he made it his personal mission two years ago to win the Olympics for Russia. He even delivered a speech to the International Olympic Committee in English - a first for a Kremlin leader before a Western audience - and promised members that the Sochi Games would be "safe, enjoyable and memorable." He even guaranteed that there would be snow. With the Olympics...