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...unifying figure like Aquino, without the usual political baggage that accompanies experience, was what the Philippines needed at the time. Obama presents himself as a conciliatory figure whose crossover appeal can help bridge the gap between blue and red staters. He is a much needed breath of fresh air in the musty corridors of power. As John F. Kennedy said, it is time for the torch to be passed on to a new generation. Let Obama be that torchbearer. He will put this nation back on the right track and make us proud to be citizens of the world once...
...When I first saw that picture, I was amazed by the beauty," says Qiu, now 54 years old and possessed of the pleasantly bookish air of a college professor. "It was kind of natural to conclude the people in it were from a bourgeois family background, so they must have suffered during the Cultural Revolution. I thought, What could have happened to them...
...inner compass on foreign policy than most Americans. They cite the pioneering work of Ruth Hill Useem, the late sociologist of Michigan State University, who spent her career studying what she called Third Culture Kids - the millions of U.S. children (an estimated 20 million since the advent of mass air travel) who have been carted abroad by their missionary, diplomatic, corporate or military parents. These frequent-flier kids don't spend enough time in their adopted countries to become fully bicultural, but they take pieces and add it to their home values and traditions - creating millions of "Third Cultures." Studies...
...Incentives apply to the football players, too: to stay on the team, they must keep a 2.5 grade-point average (out of a possible 4). Staff and students agree that Hankerson, himself a former Miami high school basketball star, has generated a renewed air of discipline and academic purpose. "We've only had a couple fights on campus this year, where we'd probably already had 15 this time last year," says Marcus Forston, 18, a senior defensive tackle with a 3.5 GPA. "We're getting pushed in the right direction...
...easy offensive boards and putbacks for Vermont. The Catamounts capitalized on second and third chances, as both their post players and their guards had an easy time around the basket. Meanwhile, Mike Trimboli and Nick Vier dropped in two three-pointers each. By the time Harvard came up for air with six minutes left in the half, it was facing a 19-point deficit. “I thought we needed a change,” coach Tommy Amaker said. “We were getting beaten off the dribble. We were getting stretched out.” That change...