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...were the new magazine chairs, we were ecstatic and energetic and a little bit wary. But no one else was nervous, knowing that Rachel would continue crafting prose from poorly strewn together clichés without discouraging the eager compers who submit that shit. Rachel has an almost preternatural instinct for what elements go into a good FM story. It’s actually amazing to watch her thought process, which after working on more than three dozen issues together, I’ve come to understand and (almost) anticipate. There are few people with whom I can sufficiently communicate...
...reform-minded intellectuals. Among the evidence: a videotaped admission she had obtained from a former vigilante. This was dangerous information. As a law professor and activist, Ebadi understood the risks; she could be dragged off to jail by the Islamic regime, or assaulted herself. "Fear, like hunger, is an instinct," she says. "It comes whether you like it or not." But when the moment of terror came, Ebadi, typically, was not worrying about her own well-being. She was more concerned about her family's reaction than what she might face in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison. So instead...
...blocking is a very difficult thing to teach. If you go through the basketball literature, there’s no books on shot-blocking, There’s no videos on shot-blocking. There’s no information on shot-blocking because it’s such an instinctive thing. He has that capability. He has a natural instinct to block some shots and not foul...
Lynch joined the Army when she was 18 because she wanted to see the world. Now it seems as though the whole world wants to see her, hear the truth about what happened to her and in the process confirm every instinct about the war: what went right, what went wrong, what it means. People will have their chance this week with the publication of Rick Bragg's spare, wrenching account of her life and her war. Diane Sawyer went down to Palestine to see her; this week Lynch will visit New York City for the first time, make...
This would be bad, bad news for these institutions and the greater good of college hockey, a closely-knit, tradition-rich sport that has shown a maternal instinct toward these embattled hockey programs...