Archive for January, 2008
What if artificial legs aren’t an advantage?
Oscar Pistorius will appeal yesterday’s track and field ruling that shut the South African amputee athlete out of the Olympic Games.
“I feel that it is my responsibility, on behalf of other disabled athletes, to stand firm,” Pistorius said yesterday after the International Association of Athletics Federations said the carbon-fibre prosthetics attached to Pretorius’s stumps give [...]
Posted: January 15th, 2008 under Sports.
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What if a promise was kept after death?
An unforgettable 2007 Grey Cup house party was held five weeks after the game.
The CFL’s championship trophy paid a visit to the Lawrence family in Regina on Sunday evening, and into Monday morning. The Cup, won by the Saskatchewan Roughriders on Nov. 25, was brought to the family’s home in memory of Erin Lawrence.
“It was [...]
Posted: January 14th, 2008 under Sports.
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What if you were reunited a century later?
When Anna Kozlov caught sight of the elderly man clambering out of a car in her home village of Borovlyanka in Siberia, she stopped dead in her tracks, convinced her eyes were playing tricks.
There, in front of her, was Boris, the man she had fallen in love with and married 60 years earlier. The last [...]
Posted: January 13th, 2008 under Love / Romance.
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