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...teams finished out the season with the men’s squad tying for 27th at the IC4A meet, and the women coming in 16th in the ECAC competition. The men’s distance medley relay team took the title in the meet and clocked in the second-fastest time in school history at 9:44.18, while the women’s distance medley relay team finished third and broke the school record...
...activity. It hurts trade, investment, the effectiveness of government expenditure, and, critically for developing countries, the prospects of innovation. This problem is very salient in India today; the 2009 Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index ranks India as a dismal 84th, a distressing result for the world’s second-fastest growing economy...
Harvard’s final victory was the 400-yard freestyle relay, the last event of the tournament, once again beating out Navy by a .71-second margin. McKeller had the second-fastest split in the race...
Just minutes earlier, 41-year-old Dara Torres, the oldest swimmer ever to compete in the Olympics, lapped the second-fastest time of the year in the 50-m freestyle and earned a silver medal, 0.01 sec. behind the winner. Along with her two other silver medals in relay races, her total Olympic haul is an impressive 12, just four shy of Phelps...
London would be Phelps' third Games, a mere trifle compared with teammate Dara Torres' fifth trip under the rings. Torres, who is now the second-fastest woman in the world in the 50-m free, continued to prove that age is no limit, missing the gold by the same tiny margin with which Phelps won the 100-m butterfly. "That was awesome," said de Bruijn, of Torres' race. "I've got so much respect for her. She was one of my biggest rivals when I was still swimming. She quit for many years, she had a baby, and then...