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...sophomore was a four-year letterwinner in both basketball and baseball at powerhouse Moeller High in Cincinnati. During Brent’s four years at the school, his basketball team won the conference title four times, won a state championship, and went 85-5. His baseball team won three conference titles and made a state final four, with Brent being named to the All-League and All-City teams...
This dominance is a common thread in the Suter family. Brent’s father, Mike, won a football national championship in 1982 at Penn State. His mother, Shirley, was a state swimming champion in high school...
Having parents who know how to win had a major impact on Brent’s childhood, inspiring him to reach the high level of achievement that his parents attained...
...expensive F-22 fighter, which Gates killed - has been out of control. "Affordability," declared an internal Pentagon report critical of the F-35, "is no longer embraced as a core pillar." A too-ambitious design lashed to a too-ambitious schedule has driven up costs so fast and so high that even the Pentagon - long practiced at ignoring such mismanagement - couldn't stand it any longer. (See the top 10 most expensive military planes...
...strange predicament for the modest jet that was supposed to be the cheap end of the military's high-low warplane mix of F-22s and F-35s. The Pentagon launched the F-35 Lightning II program a month after 9/11. Over the past eight years, the price-per-plane has doubled - from $69 million to as much as $135 million - even as none of the 2,443 on-order planes have been delivered. The program's cost has soared from $197 billion to as much as $329 billion. Plans to profit from prospective sales of more than...