Wednesday, December 31, 2008

A NONATHLETE'S PURSUIT OF OLYMPIC SUCCESS

NEW YORK TIMES. Hagen, 58, is a lawyer turned legal recruiter who happened upon an article in The Chicago Tribune in the run-up to the Summer Olympics about one female sprinter’s daunting quest to make an unlikely journey, from Baghdad to Beijing. In a year deeply scarred by a stock-market free fall and a dastardly scheme that made off with billions in charity investments, Hagen opened her checkbook, gave wholeheartedly to a cause that reached inside her, to the women’s activist within...
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