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...help the team.”Regardless of outsiders’ views, Radliffe possesses a quiet confidence-- the team knows that if all goes as planned, it can show Princeton, Wisconsin, and the rest of the boats on the river that it has the skills to stand atop the podium.“We’re okay with having targets on our backs or with being the underdogs,” Antony said. “We can mold the situation and have it motivate us, whatever it is, because...
...imminent Harvard graduate, pondering what to do with the phase of life that starts with graduation and ends with death, might find the beginnings of guidance in the directive written atop Dexter Gate. Sure to be repeated ad nauseum in the coming weeks (its biweekly appearance in this column’s title was just the beginning), it reads, “Depart to serve better thy country and thy kind.” Seeking further guidance, the graduate would find none; the instruction offers little insight into how, exactly, we are supposed to “serve better?...
...prospective No. 2 to emphasizing his liberal arts background and calling him "An Independent Thinker And A Nonconformist" in a White House fact sheet, the campaign was intended to assuage doubts expressed by House Intelligence Committee chairman Peter Hoekstra and some Senate Republicans about installing the Air Force general atop the nation's civilian spy agency...
...said that naming a military officer to head the CIA, where the current deputy director is a Navy admiral, would send the wrong signal. "Our nation needs to maintain a balance between intelligence support to the military and long-term intelligence support to policymakers. By placing a military officer atop the CIA, we risk losing this balance, and we risk losing the critical, civilian intelligence analysis that policymakers need when making foreign policy decisions," Hoekstra said...
...We’ve all begun to settle into a routine.Finding a comfortable routine is especially important for a baseball player, since you are more or less doing the same thing for five straight months. And as a minor leaguer, a good portion of your routine inevitably rests atop eight big wheels. As I write this article I am sitting through one of our four bus rides this week. Our bus pulled out of the stadium in Lakewood, N.J. at about 10:30 p.m., and we are scheduled to arrive back in Ohio at around 6 a.m. Pulling...