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...happy family," Camp Director Bobbi Zeno tells her flock in a keynote address. The girls emit a Babel of cheers. With that, U.S.A.'s handpicked cheerleader leaders--six Chippendaley boys and ten short-skirted girls--flapjack into view. The assembly lets out a Menudo-worthy squeal. "Hey," shouts one instructor. "If ever you feel the urge to shout or scream, remember: You're in cheer-leader camp. Go for it!" The congregation roars...
...time, Mahathir was trying to mend relations with Washington, poisoned by the jailing of his deputy and rival Anwar Ibrahim, and had hired a flock of high-powered lobbyists. Among those was Jack Abramoff, who attended the dinner thrown for DeLay. Abramoff had not registered his work for Malaysia either as a foreign agent or under the lobbying disclosure rules of Congress. But sources close to the matter tell TIME that he handled the Malaysia account for Greenberg Traurig throughout that summer, and contact with members of Congress on the trip could have required him to register. Abramoff's spokesman...
...This small, unassuming white-haired figure who we will now and forever know as Benedict XVI told the piazza this evening that he was just a "simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord." Now he must begin to fill the role of pastor, of leader of the flock, a shepherd who can move the faithful and cast his own large shadow across this grand piazza, this blessed city, and a turbulent world outside...
...U.S.F.L., which was formed in 1983 on the novel premise that action-starved gridiron fans would flock to see football in spring and summer, attempted to upset that arrangement. Led by New York Developer Donald Trump and other multimillionaires, the new league initially tossed around seven-figure salaries to lure players away from the N.F.L. As a result, the average N.F.L. salary has risen 58%, to $163,000, in the past two years. The N.F.L. Management Council warns that if paychecks keep rising at the present pace, the league could lose $87 million...
Apart from Harvard’s academic reputation and cutting-edge research opportunities, talented students also flock to the world’s premier academic institution for its lively and flourishing opera scene...