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...junior level, as from next year onwards she will be over 20 and so will instead need to enter the Senior Championships. But Austin does not see that as stopping her. “Emily has consistently earned her success; she has always struck me as one of the hardest workers in the sport,” she said. “She’s driven by both her intense competitive edge, but also her love for fencing. While many people burn out after fencing as long and as competitively as Emily has, she’s willing...
...Some volunteers said identification with the black population reportedly hit hardest by Hurricane Katrina has spurred their involvement in relief efforts...
...contest, exhaustion became a factor for many, especially going into the later periods. “You have to be disciplined enough to really go hard that one time,” Harvard coach Scott Anderson said. “When people are fatigued that’s the hardest thing, they just want to do something, and you don’t want to just do something, you want to do something good that’s going to finish it. [Cohen] was a great example. That was a great athletic move.” Cohen?...
...impact of the below-market wage earners tends to fall hardest on unskilled workers at the bottom of the wage pyramid. "Any sizable increase in the number of immigrants will inevitably lower wages for some American workers," says George Borjas, a professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Borjas calculates that all immigration, by increasing the labor supply from 1980 to 2000, "reduced the average annual earnings of native-born men by an estimated $1,700, or roughly 4%." Borjas says African Americans and native-born Hispanics pay the steepest price because they are more often in direct...
...fact, says veteran production designer Tom Sanders, Apocalypto "is the hardest show I've ever worked on." Stacks of archaeology books and magazines are strewn about a massive warehouse in Veracruz, where an army of costume and makeup artisans from Mexico and Italy are painstakingly re-creating feathers of the nearly extinct quetzal for royal headdresses and long, looping earlobe extensions for warriors. (Because those prostheses are difficult to apply, the actors must wear them for days on end, which rather spooks fellow guests at the Fiesta Americana Hotel.) This month Gibson starts filming at a sprawling and meticulously appointed...