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...since 1983: "The Chinese race knows how to endure hardship. Our job is to push these kids to their limits, so they can perform gloriously for our nation." Behind him on the wall, below oversized Olympic and Chinese flags, giant red lettering summarizes the motto of the Weilun school, proud breeding ground of eight athletes at this month's Athens Olympics: "Patriotism, Unity, Struggle and Devotion...
...ascendancy?along with that of another Chinese hurdler, Shi Dongpeng, who placed fifth at the Zagreb meet?could finally help correct the nation's lackluster track record. In Sydney, China won just one track medal, and that came in the less glamorous sport of racewalking. Japan has a proud history in the marathon, but the klieg lights are far brighter in the sprinting events, and success in Athens would further electrify a nation already riding high on the exploits of exported baseballers, such as Hideki Matsui and Ichiro Suzuki, who have proved that in addition to precise pitching, Japanese...
...Delhi's IIT in 1995 and now works in Hong Kong for an investment bank. Bhagat was the mastermind of a website promoting the book, offering a monthly contest and his own e-mail address for fan letters. In that sense, even a critical alum like Bhagat makes IIT proud...
...favorite current rock bands sleep with copies of Sgt. Pepper under their pillows, and I cherish few pastimes as fondly as that of imagining my parents (or myself) taking an active part in each and every social, political and cultural watershed of that era. I’m as proud that my father was tear-gassed marching against the war in Washington in October 1967 (his second date with my mother, a year or so later, was at another peace rally) as that he cut a low-rent lyrical folk-pop album at the end of the decade. Sure, cynics...
...different Dean than we knew in January, a firebrand muted. Even Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, D-Mass., seemed more restrained than usual, earning applause that must have been more for his sterling record as the Senate’s proud liberal leader than anything he said Tuesday night...