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...then began beasting out curl after curl and yelling ‘Ya! You think the Vermont Coach can do this!? No way the Vermont coach can do this!’ There is no doubt that the Vermont coach could not due [sic] as many reps curling 135 pounds as the man I saw before me. Problem was, Coach Fitz let this macho, you-are-only-as-good-as-how-much-weight-you-can-throw-around mentality drive his whole approach to training athletes...
...Lavoie began his match with a little more power than Michas, winning both the first and third game, 12-10, but he lost his second and fourth games by identical scores of 5-11. Coming into the final points, Lavoie cruised to an 11-8 win, giving Harvard its 6-3 victory...
...terrorism is partly a function of personality and mostly a function of circumstance. George W. Bush loathed what he called "small ball." He saw both his father's presidency and Bill Clinton's as inconsequential and yearned to invest his own with world-historical significance. After 9/11, he immediately began comparing the war on terrorism to World War II and the Cold War - a global, generation-defining struggle against an enemy of vast military and ideological power that would transform whole chunks of the world...
...Narrowing the Struggle Practically, this exercise in subtraction starts with Iran. By defining the U.S.'s enemy as "terror," Bush implied that Iran was as big a problem as al-Qaeda. After all, Tehran's mullahs began sponsoring terrorism before al-Qaeda was even born. In so doing, Bush made normal relations with the Islamic Republic virtually impossible. While he didn't actually declare war on Tehran, he initiated the coldest of cold wars: threats of force, no diplomacy and an ideological campaign aimed at making the regime crack...
...Horn of Africa nation - one of the world's most lawless - has killed more than 19,000 people in the past three years alone.) Al-Shabab's membership is estimated to number in the thousands; its fighters are identifiable by their red-and-white scarves. The group began fighting Ethiopian troops and the weak interim government almost immediately after the invasion; today it controls large areas of the nation's central and southern regions. Al-Shabab carries out near daily attacks against the government as well as against aid groups and African Union peacekeepers operating in the country. Its members...