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Braden provides just that. At the college, he rewards good performance with cheers and compliments like "Keep that up, and you'll be famous by Friday." Slow learners feel comforted by his gentle way of identifying with their struggle to improve. "Don't forget," he tells his charges, "every day 2 million Americans play tennis and 1 million of them lose...
What the sport needed, Braden decided, was some good research. With sponsorship from the Aspen Skiing Corp., he began interviewing skiers and instructors. "I started hearing some horror stories," he recalls. "Arrogant ; ski instructors got inexperienced people to the top of the mountain and said, 'If you want to have lunch with us, ski down.' " Braden was aghast. Even with good instructors, he says, "skiing is the most intimidating sport. It surfaces childhood fears faster than anything: fear of abandonment, fear of falling. People haven't fallen for 30 or 40 years, and now they're down in the snow...
...Residents of the Edgewood Independent school district, a poor, largely Hispanic area in west San Antonio, are willing to pay for good schools. Property taxes are high -- almost $1 per $100 of assessed valuation. But because the district encompasses part of a tax-exempt Air Force base and lacks tony subdivisions, the tax rate translates into $3,596 per student. In the Santa Gertrude school district, located on the oil-rich King Ranch in south Texas, property taxes are low -- only 8 cents per $100 of assessed valuation -- but the total spent per student...
...rhythm -- lots of rhythm -- that accounts for the new craze, and a good deal of the beat comes from the state of Bahia. There, in the Brazilian equivalent of the American Deep South, African tribal dances are blended with European sounds to create the insistent samba; the afoxe, associated with the Afro-Roman Catholic Candomble religion; and the chugging, accordion-dominated forro, which blends African rhythms with Portuguese folk music. Says U.S. guitarist Arto Lindsay, co-producer with Peter Scherer of the latest album by an eminent Brazilian performer, Caetano Veloso: "In Bahia and the north you find the purest...
...attempted coup, when they knew it, and why they opted for such a muted response. White House chief of staff John Sununu ordered an investigation of the Administration's handling of the failed coup, as did two congressional committees. Conceded a senior White House official: "You could ) make a good case that we had something of an intelligence failure." Said another: "There's no excuse. We've had a big presence in Panama and close ties with its military for a long time...