Word: jock
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After winning a surprise gold medal in the 110-m hurdles in Athens four years ago, Liu morphed from amiable jock into national stud. In 2006 he shattered the event's world record with his 12.88 time. As an Asian athlete competing in a klieg-light track event - not an international sideline sport like badminton or table tennis or synchronized diving - Liu came to personify the Chinese nation's rising ambitions. The pressure for a golden repeat in China's Games must have been overwhelming...
...missing something, but snark isn't a quality often associated with the presidency. "It's like these guys take pride in being ignorant," Obama said, laughing at the McCain campaign's crash-and-burn fighter-jock puerility...
...emulated in real life.'' Starting Tuesday, moreover, the network will switch the show from 7 p.m., when young children are more likely to watch, to 10:30 p.m. (It also runs at 11 p.m. and 3 a.m.) Howard Stern, by contrast, had a terrific week. The radio shock jock's first book, Private Parts, already has 1 million copies in print, little more than a week after publication, and has debuted at No. 1 on the Publishers Weekly nonfiction best-seller list. Crowds lined up around the block in midtown Manhattan last week just to get Stern to autograph copies...
...simultaneously humorous and heartbreaking look at the challenges teenagers must overcome in their senior years of high school. This documentary, which earned director Nanette Burstein an award at the Sundance Film Festival, chronicles the lives of four students—the outcast artist Hannah, the earnest jock Colin, the bitchy blonde Megan, and the acne-ridden band-geek Jake—as they prepare to finish their high school careers in Warsaw, Indiana.The heart of the film belongs to Hannah, who dreams about moving to Hollywood and making inspirational films—which is ironic, given that she is already...
...Thursday, has alleviated immediate concerns over a fracture in the Alliance. Canada has threatened to withdraw its forces from the dangerous zone around Kandahar; the French move should allow the U.S. to redeploy more troops from the east to Kandahar and other hot spots. For Air Chief Marshall Jock Stirrup, the head of Britain's armed forces, this "sends a very important signal ... It's not just that the French are sending more troops, but it is to a very difficult area...