Vonetta Flowers, Bobsledder

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Vonetta Flowers became the first person of African descent to win a gold-medal at the Winter Olympics for the first ever women's bobsled competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. Flowers was earlier a champion in track and filed events and had tried to make the Olympic team for the Summer Games but then joined the bobsledding team and made it to the Olympic team, winning the gold medal and inspiring people around the world with her perseverance.

Athletes, Flowers, Vonetta

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Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, Translators

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Pevear Richard, an American and Russian-born Larissa Volokhonsky are married since 22 years and widely recognized for their English-language versions of books written by Russian authors such as Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. Pevear and Volokhonsky's interpretation of 'Anna Karenina', the first English version in 40 years, won the 2001 PEN/Book of the Month Club prize, unanimously praised by critics.

Translators (Persons), Volokhonsky, Larissa

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C. Ray Nagin

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Clarence Ray Nagin Jr., the mayor of New Orleans, set about attempting to root out corruption and revive a dismal economy. But in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, with extremely limited resources and a divided constituency, Nagin has faced the more immediate task of rebuilding what is left of the city known as the Big Easy.

Mayors, Nagin, Ray

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