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Slutskaya, who immediately followed Kwan, has in the past been too rattled to pull off a winning program in the American champion's wake. Normally a powerful, fast skater who achieves hang time with her jumps, she couldn't dazzle the Olympic judges enough to overtake Hughes. But her performance to Tosca was enough to surpass Kwan, who double-footed a landing on an early jump and then struggled to maintain her confidence in the rest of the program, falling on the later triple flip. "It just wasn't my night," said Kwan again and again. "I don't know...
...Ambassador Barbara Bodine opposed the FBI's decision to pull out last June, arguing that embassy security measures were sufficient to protect the agents. Bureau officials refused to bend, insisting the ambassador only wanted the agents in country to preserve the fiction that Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was backing the investigation. In fact, Bodine and FBI on-the-ground supervisor John O'Neill clashed so heatedly whenever O'Neill wanted Bodine to press Saleh for help that Bodine refused to allow O'Neill to return to Yemen after he left the country around December 2000. O'Neill retired from...
...It’s going to be a very good game [against Yale],” Capouch said. “They’re fighting for playoff position, and they always pull a good crowd in for the Harvard game. They’re going to be jacked up and ready...
Harvard needs four points to keep pace with, and hopefully pull ahead of, Dartmouth and Clarkson. A Harvard sweep guarantees the team at least third place in the league. Harvard could finish second if Clarkson fails to win both its games. Clarkson controls its own destiny, but the Crimson does hold the tiebreaker over Dartmouth. Clarkson and Dartmouth face each other tomorrow night...
...heavyweight women claimed the best individual results for the day. Captain Michelle Guerette placed second with a pull of 6:44.0 while sophomore Caryn Davies was hot on her heels, just 7.7 seconds back to grab third place...