Of the 18 Asian-born players now in the game, 8 were signed by MLB's five elite teams.
More than half of those students qualified for the five elite citywide programs by scoring in the 97th percentile or higher.
What Dwight knows is that he is among the top five elite players in the NBA and, with the right team structure, should be consistently competing for the top prize.
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Once one of the elite five big accounting firms, it could no longer do audits for public companies.
Technically, that's true, though Wisconsin has made the tournament all 12 years under Ryan, a run that's included five Sweet 16s and one Elite Eight.
She's using it as the foundation of Five Star Greece, a company she started five years ago to provide elite, seamless travel in a country not renowned for that experience, starting with superlative villas.
These fast-growing, adroit and well-managed companies help set the benchmarks for their respective industries. (Full methodology can be found here.) Just five Canadian companies make this elite group of 130: Brookfield Asset Management, Manulife, metals producer Teck Cominco, Calgary-based TV and internet services provider Shaw Communications and Suncor Energy.
While still among the elite top-five shoo-ins for Best Picture (the others being Lincoln, Zero Dark Thirty, Silver Lining Playbook, and Les Miserables), I think this picture needs strong showings in the early awards season to make a comeback and really challenge Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty at this point.
These fast-growing, adroit and well-managed companies help set the benchmarks for their respective industries. (Full methodology can be found here.) Just five Canadian companies make this elite group of 130: Brookfield Asset Management, Manulife, metals producer Teck Cominco (nyse: TCK - news - people ), Calgary-based TV and internet services provider Shaw Communications (nyse: SJR - news - people ) and Suncor Energy.
He and his brother Vitali -- who holds the heavyweight division's other title, the WBC belt -- have dominated the elite class for the last five years.
"The economy has driven the price of commodities up in the last five years, including the price of elite cattle, " says Joe Epperly from the North American Limousin Foundation, which monitors sales of the highly-muscled Limousin breed.
Big, professional, autonomous, mostly independent and ferociously competitive: elite universities seem to offer all five important characteristics for saving lives.
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Five of the crew have already been chosen, and include an elite line-up of former Olympic competitors and international world champions.
"We're delighted Cullen has decided to compete in the Great Ireland Run and yes, of course, it does raise the possibility of the first Irish victory for five years, " said Andy Caine, the event's elite athletes manager.
Over the last five years it's been successful in luring many of the global elite to the FedEx Cup Playoffs.
Collins is the second Krzyzewski assistant in five years to earn his first head coaching job at a private, academically elite school in a major conference: Johnny Dawkins left the Duke staff to take the top job at Stanford in 2008.
Before being chosen in 1962 as one of the "Group II" astronauts -- which included Apollo 13 commander James Lovell along with such legends as Frank Borman, Pete Conrad and John Young -- Armstrong was one of the elite pilots selected to fly the X-15 rocket plane up to five times the speed of sound and toward the edge of space.
The U.K. has avoided the misery suffered in parts of the euro zone, but five years into the crisis it is looking as though tough decisions are being avoided by a political elite happy to hide behind the convenient fiction that a slump caused by the biggest credit and housing bubble in the country's history is mainly cyclical.
Former winner Charlie Spedding joins John Inverdale for Radio Five Live's coverage of the Flora London Marathon between 0830 and 1215, with commentary on the elite races from John Rawling, Mike Costello and Chicago Marathon winner Marion Sutton.
After Bernard Lagat competes Saturday in the Fifth Avenue Mile, he plans to do something that would feel completely foreign to many elite runners: He will toss his sneakers in a closet and pig out for the next five weeks.
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