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Longevity is impossible to explain. I never wanted to do anything else but be a broadcaster. I'm talking about age 5. I wanted to be on the radio, then I wanted to be on television. I never thought I'd be seen worldwide. We almost called the book What Am I Doing Here...
...stop talking. Ask the man a simple question and you get a 10-minute harangue in response. This harangue is likely to feature libertarian political opinions that are by Schiff's own admission pretty extreme--inherited as they were from a father currently in prison (at age 81!) for refusing to pay income...
...bewildered and bruised but plucky - might be said to personify Britain more closely than her fellow contenders. But this was about rebranding the U.K., and a street-dance troupe called Diversity - yup, Diversity - fits the bill so much better. Three sets of brothers plus a quartet of their friends, ages 12 to 25 and from a range of different ethnic backgrounds, used high-octane athleticism to propel themselves them into first place. This victory, said their leader and choreographer, Ashley Banjo, sends "a message that age, ethnicity, background is not important." As Diversity reprised their winning act in a snowstorm...
...Like the sporadic e-mail correspondence I’ve kept up with a graduate of Harvard’s Class of 1944 and grandfather to a member of the women’s basketball team; he follows The Crimson’s coverage of the team because his age keeps him from traveling to watch his granddaughter play in person. Like the interview I conducted with the baseball team’s hearing-impaired student manager, whose enthusiasm for his teammates and life showed me the best that sports and Harvard have to offer.Stories like these have made...
...theory for the growing number of cases like these, says Sinacore, is what he calls "the more relaxed if not blurred boundary lines between teachers and students as teachers try to communicate with kids in this day and age." Today's kids, as the media have reported recently, are far less shy about innocent physical contact like hugging than their parents were as teens. That can be exploited by any male pervert overseeing a classroom. But it can also embolden predatory female teachers, whom experts say are often in emotionally needy states. "The trend with female offenders, more than males...