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This attention to detail and strong work ethic has reaped huge dividends this season. If Rose continues his impressive pace, he is projected to break the single-season records for passing yards, total offense, completions, attempts, and total plays. He is also the only Crimson quarterback to have three 300-yard passing performances...
...Lieutenant Governor in Texas and ran the state senate. But in a way, Bush had no choice; under the Texas system, the Lieutenant Governor is as powerful as, if not more so than, the Governor. In Washington, however, there is no single superpower to embrace, and a different ethic. You can share a lot of granola with Tom Daschle and Dick Gephardt and Charlie Rangel and still not end up with the fraternal and cozy relationships that make the world go round in Austin. Like Bush, the current President believes in hugging opponents to death. But at the same time...
...Nathans brought a tireless work ethic to Harvard. In 1982, as a dean at Duke, she was the first person on the academic side of the institution to carry a pager, after she co-founded the school's on-call system. She brought the pager to Harvard, and now all assistant deans carry them as well...
...believe growing up in the Soviet sports system under the communist government played a big part in who I am today as a person and as an athlete. I learned things that will stay with me for the rest of my life." The Soviet system taught him a work ethic, says Krayzelburg; the American system gave him a chance to exploit it. "The thing about America is...anything is possible," he says. Especially a Soviet boy's turning into an American Olympic champion...
...mood is leavened by the jaunty opener, "Lincoln Town," and the gleeful abandon of "Gone" (Gone/like a Nixon file/gone, gone away/Gone/like my landlord's smile/gone, gone away"), but the overall atmosphere is one of resigned deconstruction. These are almost anti-sermons; there's a kind of fatalistic work ethic in evidence throughout, but in this lonesome congregation titles like "Take It Down," "Take It Back" and "Lift Every Stone" are exhortations to bear witness to unhappiness, not salvation. It takes the unabashed spiritualism of "God's Golden Eyes" and "Before I Go" at the album's conclusion for Hiatt...