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...cheerleaders from Henderson Middle School in East Texas are sitting on the grass at Southern Methodist University looking glumly at their sneakers as they're sized up by their "sponsor," who serves as unpaid coach, chaperone and shoulder to cry on. "Stunts, good. Cheer, good. But your spacing was off," says Tangela Washington. Her tone isn't angry, though it might sound harsh to a 13-year-old. The squad is about to face its first evaluation at a three-day summer camp run by the National Cheerleaders Association. "We've got to work like a team," Washington stresses...
...girls, clearly dejected, whisper among themselves after Washington steps away, but when other cheerleading teams start a game of Little Sally Walker on the lawn, the Henderson girls rush to join in, giggling. "Hey, girl, do your thing, do your thing," they chant as they circle two girls doing hip-hop moves in the middle. Another pair takes their place, and the singsong verse continues. With ponytails flopping, the 13- year-olds look as if they haven't a care in the world...
Meddling moms, or moms who are just being protective, create problems too. Everyone remembers the Texas cheerleading mom who killed off the competition, thereby providing the story line for two TV movies in the early '90s. "Parents really do get crazy," says Henderson cheer sponsor Washington, who sees some parents pushing girls to perform stunts they're not ready for. "I think the parents like to get involved more than the coaches," observes Breanna. "It's like they want to be a teenager again...
...cheer camp, jealousy and the stress of competition start to hurt the Henderson team's scores from the National Cheerleaders Association instructors. So late one night, the 14 girls hold a "Come to Jesus" meeting in their S.M.U. dorm room to air grievances and try to put their problems behind them. Krystin, caught in the cross fire of parental sniping, is sage enough at 13 to know that teamwork matters above all--more than the moves and certainly more than the makeup. "It's not just about one person," she says on the last day of camp. "You want...
...helps pay for priest pensions - continues to outperform the market. In March this year, London church officials hailed a yield of 13.6% for 2004, putting the fund in the top 3% of more than 700 similar British pension funds measured by the WM All Funds Universe benchmark. While Louis Henderson, spokesman for the Church Commissioners, is proud that the Church of England's portfolio is free of such sinful enterprises as pornography and gambling, he credits the recent high performance to a terrestrial treasure: real estate. "It is fortuitous that the portfolio is weighted more toward property than other comparable...