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...gets plenty of buffeting at the high school where he teaches drama. He's adored by two misfit students, the gushing Epiphany Sellars (Phoebe Strobe) and the not-yet-aware-of-his-own-gayness Rand Posin (Skylar Astin). The other kids, including a bunch of Latinos bused in from another school, treat Dana with loud contempt, and the principal is ready and eager to close down the Drama Department, i.e. Dana. His grand idea has been to stage productions of old hit movies - Erin Brockovich played by teens - which are routinely panned by the local critic, another student...
...think that's just about me. I think they are congenitally nervous because we lost a bunch of presidential elections where people felt that we should have won. But keep in mind that whatever concerns people have about me, my campaign in particular, we heard those all through the primaries. And the reason - as I said in this town-hall meeting - that I think we're going to be successful is, it's not about me. It's about the American people. It's about the fact that their wages and incomes have flatlined, their costs have gone up, they...
...start immediately, when eight riders bunch up atop a three-story hill. At "go," expect a show. "You go 5 ft., then 'kink,' it drops almost straight down, about 60°," says Donny Robinson, the top-ranked rider for the U.S. men. "It's like going down a roller coaster, a 'just hang on' kind of thing." The racers will all be moving at 40 m.p.h., jostling for inside position. Calamities are commonplace: face it; that's part of the appeal. "Anyone here who tells you they haven't crashed is a liar," says fellow American Kyle Bennett...
...Robinson is the rider to watch. Besides biking for gold, he's shooting to shift the stereotype of extreme-sport athletes. "I hope we can bring some edge," he says. "But we're not a bunch of punk kids riding around town vandalizing stuff." That's nice to know. "I'm not the typical action-sport athlete," he says. "I like to sing and dance. That's who I am; that's my personality...
...place after that rotation. But it wasn't until they reached the high bars that the U.S. squad found its medal rhythm. Flowing routines by Jonathan Horton and Justin Spring, both of whom landed squarely to punctuate their determination, pushed the team to second behind the Chinese. "For a bunch of first timers, they did amazingly well" says Miles Avery, the Hamms' coach. "People felt without Paul and Morgan we had nothing. But we had a lot left...