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...level of disillusionment Fullilove feels matches the enthusiasm she felt as an 18-year-old high school senior from Dayton, Ohio, visiting the Air Force Academy for the first time in the spring of 1999. Only the best and brightest, the top 20% of their high school class, have a chance at admission. Fullilove was that and more. She was a straight-A student, a cheerleader, a hurdle jumper and a swim-team member. A dance champion by age 5, she choreographed her own routines, sang and did comedy. She was determined to follow in the footsteps of her mother...
...illuminated for “The Reel Chaplin” the orchestra retained a sense of composure and poise. As soon as the big screen took over, however, the sound of confidence receded and the performers accepted a survival tactic. The orchestra performed their notes with less than optimal enthusiasm for musical clarity and diversity, occasionally hitting an incorrect note. The cohesiveness and refinement of sound was impeded by the inadequate venue and perhaps also the high expectations created by the large, unfamiliar audience...
...documentaries when ordering them for his professors at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, Hendricks "is a schoolteacher at heart," says John Malone, chairman of Liberty Media, a principal shareholder of Discovery, along with Cox Communications and Advance/Newhouse Communications. "Like Ted Turner," Malone says, "Hendricks has a childlike enthusiasm about new ideas that is infectious." (His latest passions include the Women's United Soccer Association, a league he co-founded, and the small plane he pilots above his ranch in western Colorado...
Perhaps most impressive is the enthusiasm of the site's users. Veronica Bailey, 31, an actress in New York City, says she spends an hour or two on it each day. "It's hilarious," says Bailey, who has used Craig's List to land a role in an off-off-Broadway musical, find roommates, get dates and score concert tickets. Terry Larimore, 50, a psychotherapist in Larkspur, Calif., adopted a pet rat through the site last summer. When Fuzz died in January, Larimore posted a death notice and received over 70 condolence emails, including poems and links to pet-loss...
...There is little evidence that turnover at the rate of every ten years or so is a bad thing,” he writes in an e-mail. “New masters always seem to arrive with enthusiasm and energy...