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John Blewis, 36, a general manager in Fort Myers, Fla., started training for his first marathon 10 months ago, after seeing on Facebook that a friend from high school had run in their hometown race in Buffalo, N.Y. He joked that he would jog with her the next time around. Three half-marathons later (and 45 lb. lighter), he's registered to compete in the Buffalo marathon...
Harvard was able to add two more runs in the sixth, and sophomore pitchers Marcus Way and Will Keuper held down the fort on the mound. Way allowed just two runs in five and two-thirds innings of work, and the lefty Keuper wiggled his way out of trouble to nail down the save...
...polarization of our political system into a confrontational boxing match, each party unrelenting when the other is in power. Recourse from the current route requisites systemic change; anything less will spiral to dystopic ends. As apart as the North and South seemed when the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter 150 years ago, party lines divide America today. The war we face comes with its costs of progress and efficiency, as each side fights to preserve its vision of America. The pivot of this “new secession” is not the Mason-Dixon...
Just last summer, Gates toured the huge Fort Worth, Texas, factory where the F-35 is coming to life and declared himself satisfied. "My impression is that most of the high-risk elements associated with this developmental program are largely behind us," he said. Cheaper F-35s rolling off the assembly line seemed to bolster the wisdom of Gates' earlier decision to kill the F-22 fighter, because cheaper F-35s could fill any resulting...
...book, Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone. In it, the Washington Post reporter detailed the arrogance and naivet of the young zealots the Bush Administration sent to pacify Iraq: how they frolicked beside Green Zone swimming pools as if Baghdad were spring-break Fort Lauderdale, handed out tens of millions in cash to American and Iraqi connivers and blithely mismanaged the occupation into chaos...