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...from magazines, boys or other girls." Although she won just once in her college career, she maintains that the only way for women to gain parity in the sport is through continued access to matches. If that means wrestling boys, so be it. Miranda's aim is to help establish women's wrestling as an NCAA Division I sport. That would enable women to pursue an education and an activity they love--a double blessing for kids like Nicole Woody...
...months later, Bass says she isn’t sure that catching him and other men who peep in bathrooms is her only aim...
...reasonably interesting supplement to Twain’s book, her “nuanced critique” articulates few moral problems that weren’t already implicit in the work of her forbearer. The agonistic endgame, the technique of recalling a predecessor’s work with the aim of unsettling or revising it, is at least as old as Ovid’s Heroides. My Jim is an effort in good faith. But if one is going to stand on—or beat about—the shoulders of a literary giant, one must be prepared...
...Florissant, Mo. The unfailingly polite Hall of Famer helped found the Professional Bowlers Association in 1958 and went on to win 26 tour events and six seniors titles. A self-described ham, he promoted the sport with such exploits as bowling on a Miami beach and taking aim at lava lamps on David Letterman's late-night TV show...
...with TIME, senior Iraqi insurgent commanders said several "nationalist" rebel groups--composed predominantly of ex--military officers and what the Pentagon dubs "former regime elements"--have moved toward a strategy of "fight and negotiate." Although they have no immediate plans to halt attacks on U.S. troops, they say their aim is to establish a political identity that can represent disenfranchised Sunnis and eventually negotiate an end to the U.S. military's offensive in the Sunni triangle. Their model is Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, which ultimately earned the I.R.A. a role in the Northern Ireland...