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...tell that to Marsha Boysaw, 37, an attorney who works out to Tae-Bo four times a week. Her abs jut out below a damp sports bra as she discloses that she lost 38 lbs. in her first six months of Blanks' vigorous workouts. Jackie Gradinger, 30, a veteran of the treadmill and step aerobics, proclaims Tae-Bo "the hardest workout I've ever done." She too is impressed by its effect on her waistline, but she adds, "I do it mostly for my mind." Lynne Devlin, 37, a preschool teacher who ordered the tapes in January, finds the mind...
That means dealing with the people in your lives, whether you love them, love them and they drive you nuts, hate them, or jut want them to go away. But I'd also like to talk about mundane problems like what to do about that strange kid who always initiates conversation with you on the shuttle back to the Quad...
...worried. Their youth works for us," Marks said. "These guys aren't afraid of anyone. To some degree they break the mold--they're not typical Ivy League swimmers. They came to compete nationally not in the Ivy League. They jut know how to race...
...newspapers and magazines, the Apollo astronauts were portrayed as heroes in the old mold: God-fearin', jut-jawed, steely-eyed missilemen, gazing into the skies they would soon conquer. These brainy jocks with their laconic C.B. chatter and their diplomas from M.I.T., Princeton, Caltech and Harvard were icons of stability in a most fractious decade. Americans looked across the Pacific and saw defeat. They looked at their campuses and saw revolt; at their inner cities and saw flames. For inspiration there was nowhere to look...
Then the big U.S. military machine shifted gears again. As its troop levels reached 12,000 on the way up to 15,000, its power began to spread across Haiti and through the capital. The U.S. commander, Lieut. General Henry Hugh Shelton, a big, jut-jawed Ranger, told the Haitian leaders there would be no more police violence -- or else. Haiti's military chief, Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, quickly agreed. American military police took to the streets, patrolling and even directing traffic, while U.S. troops neutralized Haitian army and police posts. There were perils: Marines engaged Haitians in a firefight...