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...offseason conditioning workouts, he had the team’s fastest time in the pro agility test—a feat usually reserved for a running back or wide receiver. His show of raw ability and athleticism gave the coaching staff the confidence to pencil him in as the starting strong-side linebacker at the beginning of the year...
...Cserny stays healthy, she has a great chance to win her third Ivy League Championship in three years, a feat few Harvard athletes in any sport have ever achieved—and probably fewer Hungarians...
...guidance in fording rivers and traversing the appropriate mountain passes. Their verdict: The army traveled about 6,000 kilometers, half the fabled distance. "People seem affronted [by the findings] and try to convince us we're wrong," says Jocelyn. But even at the shorter distance, it was a prodigious feat. "It was not a Short March," he says...
...care at all. He goes full out for it. His saving grace all his life has been that he takes you to the edge, where you're about to say enough already, and then there's a good joke that undercuts the whole thing. It's a great feat of trapeze...
...they do, a much richer, knottier conversation about the New SAT will probably begin. For decades, the purpose of the test has been to try to measure students' general-reasoning abilities, not their specific knowledge of algebra or the extent to which they have written practice essays. Caperton's feat is actually twofold: not only has he begun to shape a U.S. curriculum, but he has also granted victory in a long, contentious argument about whether admissions tests should assess aptitudes or achievements. For decades, the SAT was, at its heart, an aptitude test; now it's becoming more like...