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...fortune has deserted Maier, who had a motorcycle accident in August, leaving him with compound fractures in his lower right leg and keeping him off his skis until December. Though he worked hard in the gym to make the team for Salt Lake City, last week he had to admit defeat. Which leaves Eberharter as top tip for Olympic honors. With four downhill victories this season, as well as super-Gs at Val d'Isère and Kitzbühel, Eberharter is brimming with confidence. "He's an inspiration," says American slalom specialist Bode Miller...
...series of jobs like oystering, landscaping, pumping gas. I was homeless. I slept in Laundromats or in cars. I was crashing at friends' houses. I'd sneak into my mom's house and sleep there. I didn't want to move back home; I didn't want to admit defeat...
...rare for a Republican president to expand a social welfare program; it is even rarer for Newt L. Gingrich to admit to making a mistake. But Americans were treated to both phenomena last week as President George W. Bush proposed to loosen eligibility laws for legal immigrants regarding the collection of federal food stamps...
...Then there's the issue of responsibility: According to this new rule, male cadets who impregnate a woman (and who actually admit to it) will be asked to leave VMI. That's patently absurd. Male cadets who are partner to a pregnancy should not only be permitted to stay, they should be forced to stay. How else are they going to provide for their new family? (And yes, they should be permitted to marry the mother of their child...
...right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is—working out some system of fooling the grader, although I think I should prefer the world “impressing.” We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system being, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocation, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few, and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...