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Dunn focused on how her experience as a soccer mom and amateur botanist inspired her to believe firmly in smaller government. She smiled when she talked about her family and looked stern when talking about America's problems. I think she said some other stuff too, but I wasn't really listening...
Lipinski has said she gave up amateur competition so that she could spend more time with her family, making her perhaps the only teenager in America who actually wants to live at home. "More time," however, is a relative term. Lipinski's days are filled with promotional appearances at department stores and malls (even before the Olympics she had scored deals with DKNY and Mattel); her nights are filled with fund-raising galas and movie premieres. In her rare spare time, she tools around her home state of Texas in the black Corvette she got as part of her deal...
JUNE 2003 Monica leaves Paris for Winnipeg, Man., which has the lowest per capita paparazzo population on earth. One week later, however, an amateur photographer takes an unflattering picture of her eating a corn dog, and she flees on a snowmobile...
This appreciation that life is complicated and people are funny has burst on our politics in other ways that most seers, professional and amateur, failed to predict. Tolerance of gays is an example. Despite horrible episodes like this year's torture-murder of Matthew Shepard, the general public is clearly losing patience with homophobia. Even the most obviously prejudiced politician or anti-gay political activist now feels obliged to deny any anti-gay bias, even when demonstrating one. It would be nice if this was because people concluded that gays are perfectly normal. But it's even better if people...
Vermont is to basketball as Indiana is to Ethan Allen. Janowski went to summer basketball camps and played Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) hoops, but the game was not bred into her the way it may have been for other players. Only one other member of her high school squad even went on to play college ball...