Word: ascent
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...offensive line in only a year, much to the pleasant surprise of his coaches.It was not until his sophomore year that Fernandez established himself as the starting center, a post he would never relinquish. That same championship year marked the beginning of Fernandez’s ascent to a position of respected leadership.Soft-spoken and reserved by nature, Fernandez’s leadership style does not entail rallying his teammates with fiery speeches in the locker room or the huddle. His actions define him, and his example holds more weight than any words could.This was made evident to Murphy when...
...starters, what does it say to illegal immigrants if a woman named “Velazquez” is the future head of the House Small Business Committee? The ascent of minorities will lead to a crisis of leadership, and Grandma Pelosi (D-Calif.)—mother of five, grandmother of five—will be too busy turning the House into “the Home” to stop...
...decoders. Anyone who has ventured into the manic densities of Gravity's Rainbow or Mason & Dixon knows the drill. You comb through his superabundance of historical data and scientific arcana. You adjust your nerve endings to operate at his mad frequencies. Day after day you resume the steep ascent of his achievement and just hope to make camp before nightfall...
...DIED. Eric Newby, 86, venerated, genial British travel writer who infused his accounts of trips to remote locales-which often proved disastrous-with wit and humanity; in Surrey, England. His signature work, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, detailed his long, illness-ridden ascent of Afghanistan's 6,000-m peak Mir Samir...
...located atop Mount Koya - a place of pilgrimage for over a thousand years, home to Japan's oldest Buddhist sect (the Shingon-shu) and a World Heritage Site. You can reach it via a 90-minute train ride from Osaka, followed by a cable-car ascent. The 48-room shukubo is famous for its tofu and lavish temple altar. Meditation is held twice daily with instruction in English and Japanese. "The time it takes for a stick of incense to burn is the amount of time you should meditate each day," advises the head priest, Ryusho Soeda. DAISHIN-IN: Warlord...