Word: championed
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...There may be 15 races to go in the seven-month Formula One campaign - Bahrain is next to play host on April 15 - but Hamilton already cuts an imposing figure in the paddock. "He's not only good - he's exceptionally good," says Damon Hill, Formula One World Champion in 1996 and now president of the British Racing Drivers' Club. Forget that Hamilton's Grand Prix career is just beginning. Hill, who jostled with Hamilton on a karting track at one point in the '90s, says: "He's had I don't know how many years of racing behind...
...hasn't reduced his appetite for risky maneuvers. Hamilton is "not worried about showing or doing what he's used to doing just because it's Formula One," says Hill. For many new drivers, "that's an enormous hurdle." With the retirement last year of seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher, there's one less rival for Hamilton to negotiate...
...with anything that even whispers of amnesty for illegal workers. Meanwhile, liberals deplore his harsh approach, with its $10,000 fines and $3,500 fees for temporary work visas. Thousands of protesters threaded through the streets of L.A. carrying signs saying LOVE THY NEIGHBOR, DON'T DEPORT HIM. Their champion, Senator Edward Kennedy, whom Bush will need in his corner to get anything passed, is still fuming after the March raid of a Massachusetts factory, in which agents swept up undocumented workers and shipped them to detention facilities halfway across the country, leaving children stranded at school and a baby...
...little subtle flavors and really enjoy a puzzle,” he says. “Lots of people do puzzles, but no one takes it up to his level,” says Sun H. Chung, a fellow chemistry grad student. Hardcore though he is, the Sudoku World Champion tagline might take some getting used to. Snyder maintains that he hasn’t used it as a pick-up line—”yet.” But not to worry, there’s no box he can’t fill...
...bioethics, we’ve secured a budget surplus only a fool would deem exhaustible and the storm clouds of Cold War anxiety have retreated from view. America’s the prettiest girl at the dance. Of course, the news isn’t all sunny. Our national champion Michael Tyson dallied in cannibalism in a recent bout with Evander Holyfield, but we at the Crimson are certain he will be back out of trouble—and back in our hearts—in a few brief months. Hang in there, Iron Mike! The April 28 concert...