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...getting better: "I don't often feel like working or doing something that's good for my brain, but I try to push myself to do it nonetheless, because, as with physical exercise, I always feel better when I've done it...I resent the effort it takes to maintain relationships or meet the tedious obligations that family and friendships can impose, and yet I know that isolation is very bad for me. I know that my happiness depends, in large part, on human contact and intimacy. And so, as with everything else, I do it and reap the reward...
...nothing like having a game, putting yourself in some situations and things, and you learn about your team a little bit,” Crimson coach Tommy Amaker said. “I was pleased that different players were able to give us good minutes and good effort.” Harvard opened the game with an easy three-pointer from senior guard Drew Housman and never relinquished the lead. Daniel Webster stuck with the team early in the game, shooting 48% from the floor in the first half. But turnovers turned out to be the Eagles’ downfall...
...Fonacon's initial effort in 2005 drew 300 people to a small village in the coastal Vendée region, using what has become the group's winning formula: free oysters and drinks for all comers who preregister, and an evening of tearing up agendas, smashing clocks and otherwise attacking symbols of time. Another appeal to restless New Year's Eve souls in 2006 brought more than 1,000 to Nantes. Last year Fonacon attracted more than 10,000 people with its party-cum-protest in Paris. This year Marie-Gabriel jokingly boasts that he expects "between five...
...delicate balance between fun and learning,' as he once described it. Cooney understood from the show's earliest days, back before it became a brand of excellence here and around the globe, that using television to teach the alphabet and counting to twenty would have been a noble effort, but not nearly as much fun, without...
Semper Fit is a gym at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, and Obama has made an effort to mingle with the Marines stationed there. Every morning but Christmas Day Obama has worked out at the facility, pausing afterward to greet the service members and their friends and family who gather near his motorcade to take pictures and shake his hand. On Christmas Eve, Obama greeted the crowd outside the gym with a hearty "Mele Kalikimaka!," Hawaiian for "Merry Christmas...