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Boston SOS It is an offshoot of New York based Improv Everywhere, best know for staging its “freeze” event in Grand Central Station. According to Cobalt, future plans involve guerilla gardening, or renovating public places under cover of night...
...increasing dominance of work in the lives of Conley and his friends and family: "Leisure? The 'good life'? What are those? Work is the central aspect of our lives. We are lucky that it is fulfilling work - work that we will probably continue to do until we are no longer capable - but it is, unlike that of my parents, all-consuming work. There is always an email to answer, a paper or memo to read, and a lecture to give or receive. Success in today's professional world doesn't mean retiring at fifty to play golf in Florida...
...That forehand is the central component of a style that tennis experts call "counter-punching." It's one that absorbs an opponent's attacking play with aggressive returns, and springs from Nadal and his uncle's contrarian instincts. Nadal is naturally right-handed. But early on, Toni decided his protégé should play with his left hand to impart unusual southpaw spin. Toni then encouraged, or perhaps failed to correct, the extreme grip Nadal uses, and the unusual way he swings his racquet. To this day, instead of using the forward momentum of his body to generate pace...
...humbling to know that several hundred thousand people cast their ballot to put a 27-year-old in the U.S. Congress. To have their faith in my ability to represent them and to do a good job for central Illinois means a lot. That weighs heavily on me, the responsibility to deliver for them...
...asked my scheduler about that yesterday, and I didn't see it on there for the first six months [laughs]. The schedule that the Speaker has put out is pretty aggressive. The weekends that I have, quote, free, I'm planning to go back to central Illinois. Those are the folks who gave me the job, and I need to stay in touch with them...