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...biggest accomplishment this semester, I believe, was our doubles,” Green said. “Everyone mixed up their partners, however, I think we improved our doubles formations and overall aggressiveness. They were afraid of the ball early in the semester. Now they’re hitting Pete Sampras overheads...
...That’s the way I am. Life is too short for dawdling” and “What about me? Haven’t these days meant anything for you?” and “She taught me not to be afraid of myself anymore” leave Walker and his fellow characters trapped in two dimensions. This stands in opposition, however, to the time and space Walker traverses—in such a multilayered, diligently designed novel, clichés seem strangely out of place. Perhaps, then, their presence is meant to highlight...
...knew nothing about farming when I originally got there,” D’Ambrosia says. “I arrived as such a city girl. I was afraid of the night. I actually walked down the road [thinking] a mountain lion [was] going to attack...
Most of the Republican presidential contenders - yes, I'm afraid the 2012 race is starting up already - are not running hard to the right, at least so far. Mitt Romney has refrained from throwing himself behind the momentary passions of the party's base, for example, by staying out of the conservative-moderate fight in New York. Tim Pawlenty felt obliged to endorse Hoffman, but he has successfully governed a Midwestern state that has a strong liberal tradition. Sarah Palin, on the other hand, has been playing to the base and has the low poll numbers with moderates to prove...
...says the meeting with the Galáns was more nerve-racking than the time when he, as a teenager in Medellín, was summoned by pistol-packing leaders of a rival cartel. (At the time, he made out his will beforehand.) "I felt 10 times more afraid, even though I knew that no one was going to hurt me physically," he said, "because I felt an enormous responsibility [to the Galán family...