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...million donation from Bernie Ecclestone, boss of Formula One motor racing, after suggestions, denied by both sides, that his largesse might have influenced the government's decision to exempt the sport from a ban on tobacco sponsorship. But back then, Blair was untouchable. "I'm a pretty straight sort of guy," he told the BBC's Humphrys in an early encounter. Today that sort of charm doesn't wash with a public made cynical by revelations about dodgy dossiers on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction...
...triple-overtime defeat at the hands of Boston College in the opening round of Boston’s hallowed Beanpot Tournament. There is only being rebuffed in trying to reclaim the trophy from the Golden Eagles, who snapped the Crimson’s string of seven straight tourney titles at Bright Hockey Center last February. And being consigned to the consolation game against lowly Northeastern, playing for third place for the first time since 1998. “There’s no way around it,” Stone says. “It stinks.” There...
...more of—and sometimes lead their teams to great success during their short stints, they mostly evoke a feeling of free agency in its ugliest sense. That sense is, of course, that sport is all about what your team gives you—truckloads of money, a straight shot into the pros, a Rolex and an Escalade from an anonymous “sports booster”—and not about what you give to your team. To those who say Greg Oden and his fellow grown-man-sized “one-and-doners?...
...more disciplined in terms of sticking to his campaign themes, to the point of repeating word-for-word answers he gives from city to city and interview to interview, and he already has the experience of a presidential run. But he's trying to establish himself as the bold, straight-talking candidate, as Dean did in 2003. Edwards has said from the beginning of his campaign "it's make believe" that a president could balance the budget, create universal health care and reduce the problems of global warming and poverty. So he's focused on the latter goals, rather than...
...opportunities for her to find these baskets. It is a skill Moretzsohn has worked to enhance during her time at Harvard. The hard work finally paid off on Saturday.In addition. Moretzsohn’s singular performance combined with strong team play lifted the Crimson to its third straight victory and fourth triumph in the Ivies. During Saturday’s tilt against the Big Red, the Crimson (6-12, 4-1 Ivy) never relinquished the lead after breaking out on a 6-0 advantage early on. After going down by 12 after a Niki Finelli jumper in the first half...