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...inaugural women's boardsailing competition at the 1992 Barcelona Games, and followed it up with a silver medal in Atlanta and a bronze in Sydney. In a small, sailing-mad country, Kendall has managed to remain a "golden girl" after almost two decades on the professional circuit. "There is pressure on me, but it's not intense pressure," she says of the build-up to Athens. "I don't feel like I have anything to prove to the world, or to myself, that I'm a really good sailor and that I can do it over and over again...
...eventually became so vocally critical of such sanctified New Deal creations as Social Security and the Tennessee Valley Authority that GE abruptly dropped him in 1962, but Reagan was by now much in demand on what he liked to call "the mashed-potato circuit." When the conservatives rallied behind the presidential campaign of Senator Barry Goldwater in 1964, Reagan's gift for oratory provided one of the unexpected highlights in the doomed campaign. "You and I have a rendezvous with destiny," Reagan declared (borrowing one of Franklin Roosevelt's most famous lines) to a G.O.P. fund-raising dinner...
...country, if we can get that message across to the people," he said. "I am going to try to do that." He began a weekly commentary broadcast on some 200 radio stations and a biweekly column in 175 newspapers. Those efforts, together with his popularity on the mashed-potato circuit, increased his income from a Governor's salary of $49,100 to about $800,000 a year...
Ventura attributes the contradiction to his own doing, referring to his days as a performer on the wrestling circuit...
After graduation, Frank is planning to clerk one year for Robert Sack, a judge in the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, and afterwards pursue a career in litigation...