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  • (American Rebecca) Soni breaks record to win 200 breaststroke

    08/15/2008 12:02:44 PM PDT · by Pyro7480 · 15 replies · 102+ views
    Yahoo! News (Reuters) ^ | 8/15/2008 | Julian Linden
    BEIJING (Reuters) - American Rebecca Soni broke the world record to win the women's 200 meters breaststroke final on Friday to collect her first gold medal of the Beijing Olympics. Soni surged to victory in two minutes 20.22 seconds, wiping 0.32 off the previous world record set by Australia's Leisel Jones at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. Jones, who won the 100 earlier in the week, faded on the last lap to finish second in 2:22.05 while Norway's Sara Nordenstam was third in 2:23.02. Soni became just the second American female swimmer to win gold in Beijing after Natalie Coughlin won...
  • 'Jersey Girl' Defends Jamie Gorelick

    08/11/2005 8:48:47 AM PDT · by Maria S · 101 replies · 3,853+ views
    A member of the group, the "Jersey Girls," who lost her husband in the 9/11 attacks, is defending 9/11 Commission member Jamie Gorelick against allegations that, as deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration, she blocked critical intelligence that had identified the two 9/11 hijackers who destroyed the World Trade Center. "Gorelick gets a bad rap with that whole, you know, 'wall thing,'" Lorie Van Auken told WABC Radio's John Gambling - referring to Ms. Gorelick's 1995 directive prohibiting intelligence agencies from sharing evidence on suspected terrorists with law enforcement. Calling it insread "the Reno wall," Van Auken insisted that...