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Radcliffe emerged from a staggered start and held with Yale initially—but going into the curve on the Lake Housatonic course, the Black and White was unable to make up the stagger and pull up with the Bulldogs. At the final pole Yale claimed a win by about half a length of open water...
...doubles were pretty tight. Eva and Melissa won in no time, but eventually it came down to us,” Bergman said. “We played two people who were deceptively good, but we have a lot of confidence in each other and we knew we could pull the match...
...grim possibility is that insurgents are exploiting the relative lull to prepare for new offensives. An insurgent interviewed by TIME last week says the bulk of his forces have used the ruse of recent truce talks to pull out of Fallujah in preparation for coming operations that will target Baghdad. Teams have been left behind in Fallujah to harass U.S. troops and provide cover for other insurgents to leave the city and head for the capital...
...person, without her glasses on, Fey, 33, seems slight, shy and approachable. Maybe too approachable for her own good. She is moved, in the course of an interview, to pull her shirt down to cover her midriff and mention her husband several times. Back in high school in Upper Darby, Pa., before she was one of PEOPLE's most beautiful people ("In all the world!" Fey exclaims. "India! China!"), back when she was an honor student and a co-editor of the newspaper as well as a member of the drama club, the tennis team, the community-service corps...
Heading a multinational drug firm is a high-wire act. When you aren't struggling to satisfy investors, you're justifying the high cost of your products to consumers. Daniel Vasella, CEO of the Swiss company Novartis, seems to pull off the act effortlessly. Urbane, understated and uncommonly charming, Vasella--a physician by training--speaks three languages fluently and flits easily among the varied social and commercial cultures in which his company operates. He's Swiss and proud of it, but his business sense is quintessentially American...