South Korea’s Kim Yu-na, the reigning world champion and the overwhelming favorite, skated in the women’s short program with the confidence and skill to match her expectations. Her first-place score of 78.50 shattered her own world record.
From:http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/02/24/sports/olympics/0223-SKATE_index.html
For the first time, she stood on the ice after her performance and felt her lips start to quiver. As flowers and stuffed toys rained down from the stands, her tears began to flow.
“I can’t believe this day has finally come for me,” said Kim, who was taken aback by her own crying.
That emotional release, [...]
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Actor Andrew Koenig, who had been missing since February 14, committed suicide, his father told reporters after his son’s body was found Thursday in a park in Vancouver, British Columbia.
“My son took his own life,” Walter Koenig said at a news conference in the park.
The body of the former “Growing Pains” star was found by [...]
Myanmar’s Supreme Court rejected Friday an appeal by pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to overturn her house arrest.
A diplomat who attended the hearing and spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed that the appeal was unsuccessful.
Suu Kyi, 64, has one final avenue for appeal to a special court in Myanmar’s new capital, Naypidaw.
The Nobel Peace [...]
A major winter storm will continue to wallop the Northeast on Friday, a day after heavy snow closed schools, roads and caused dangerous conditions.
Parts of New York could get as much as a foot of snow Friday. The storm is the third blizzard to hit the area in a month.
“The heavy wet snow will be [...]
Holding the Olympic medal she and her mom always wanted, Joannie Rochette finally smiled and talked about when she was a young skater and desperately wanted make her mother proud.
Her mom, Therese, was her biggest supporter and sometimes her biggest critic, she said.
She wasn’t the best “coach,” and she was kind of picky, but she [...]
But wait, Amman has achieved something else, too! It has put in park benches. And not just in parks, but right there, on those new, flat sidewalks that do not end suddenly, for no apparent reason. Sidewalks and benches are easy to dismiss as discretionary conveniences, unnecessary urban flourishes. That is especially true considering how [...]
Early each morning, millions of farmers around the world rise to toil in their fields. By night, gangs of mobsters scheme and legions of poker players shuffle up and deal.
Sure, none of it’s real. But the overwhelming popularity of so-called social gaming — simple games that let people play with their friends on networking sites [...]
