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...Hagner said. “I used to have this problem freshman year where I’d pass the ball instead of shooting, and my coaches hated it. You’ve got to have a nose for the net, they say—not being afraid to take risks…having the confidence you can beat your defender and go to the goal.”And that is exactly what she did, catching fire as the month of October began. Hagner kicked off her scoring spree with a goal in a 3-1 victory over Yale...
...clammy, unconscious 25-year-old man sprawled out on a La-Z-Boy in a chic Chicago townhouse. He had overdosed on heroin and GHB (a party drug that is also used as a date-rape drug), according to his two panicked friends. The friends were high too, and afraid to call 911, so they called Bigg instead, whom they knew from Chicago Recovery Alliance's needle-exchange program...
...nature of journalism,” said Nieman Foundation Curator Robert H. Giles. A number of fellowship recipients had recently repositioned themselves by leaving broadcast or newspaper journalism for the freelance sector, Giles said. Newspaper reporters, he said, may not have turned out for the fellowship because they were afraid that a prolonged absence from the newsroom might exact a toll on their employment status, or because they worked for newspapers that no longer support long-term fellowships for their staffers. “The standard for selection that we use involves [identifying] people of accomplishment, leadership, and talent...
...recent poll, he notes that more Americans view themselves as nonbelievers than the population of Jews, Muslims and Mormons combined. "Yet," he says, "you don't see that group having a caucus in Congress or anywhere else. It's a group that's been in the closet. People are afraid to 'come out' to their families and say they don't believe in God." The ads are designed to show lonely atheists that they do not walk alone - and they can go on disbelieving...
...confusing, hateful and destructive. The record label [told me], Take it off the album. Rather than do so, I decided to produce it on the inside of the sleeve with a different name, so it'll be sold in Wal-Mart or wherever stores sell guns but are afraid to deal with lyrics. So I put "Pretty as a ($)" because all of their motivations are based on money. (Watch TIME's video from the 2009 SXSW Music Festival...