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Writer Thomas McGuane once called the alliance between horse and human "a burst of poetry." But the only thing bursting was two blisters on the inside of my left knee when our wrangler asked my partner and me to each hold an end of a belt and walk our horses side by side through a maze in the shimmering aspens high in the Rockies above Steamboat Springs, Colo. Right off, I knew this was a make-or-break moment in what experts refer to as an "experiential" course in corporate training--this one a dusty, five-day regimen crafted...
Indeed, the equine minuet with belt would bring into play a good many of the skills we'd learned that week, lessons about reining our horses, applying the correct kind of pressure to get the desired results, and letting the horses know when to go fast, go slow or just whoa...
...Radcliffe crews know the fall season is training, and each race readies the boat for the future.“From our perspective, the fall is a build-up to the spring,” lightweight co-captain Jennifer Chung said. “To have this under our belt, it gives us confidence and tells us what we need to do to step it up.”What the Black and White heavyweights and lightweights accomplished on the Charles yesterday may be less than groundbreaking in the big picture of women’s crew...
...time summer rolled around, my brother Jamie and I embarked on a dream: five cities, five games, five days. We took our mid-June road trip through the Rust Belt. Apparently, Midwesterners like their major league baseball five hours apart. It’s an amazing convenience...
...need for oil. We cannot expect success in dialogue or negotiation when those people have something we desperately need. The only way to attain objectivity in foreign policy is to eliminate the oil factor. Americans need to make huge lifestyle changes (sell-or junk-the Hummer, and tighten your belt) while we develop oil alternatives. Otherwise, we will have only ourselves to blame for the huge number of young lives that will be sacrificed in the name of a killer oil habit we couldn't break. Gerald Witter Norman, Oklahoma...