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...says, have kept her grounded and equipped her to deal with public attention. But without a plan or goal, like an Olympic campaign, Kendall says she begins to lose self-worth. The next challenge is finding the mix of motivational speaking, parenting, coaching and business ventures to stay keen in retirement, which beckons if her body fails or when the "fire in the belly" and hatred of losing dissipates. "If things don't quite go right for me in Athens it won't matter," she says. "I've got a life, I've got a child...
...this failure of nerve. When Secretary of State Colin Powell was putting together his now discredited speech to the U.N. last year about Saddam's WMD program, he stood virtually alone against the hard-liners, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and her deputy Stephen Hadley, all of whom seemed keen to pump up the Secretary's talking points. Cheney's staff handed Powell a 50-page draft of allegations; the Secretary rejected most of them as unsupportable, with the hard-liners, Rice and even Tenet fighting him every step of the way during run-through sessions at CIA headquarters...
This relationship dovetails with Summers’ demonstrated keen interest in the College, and especially in the curricular review...
Though he had a bit of an injury scare during the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational in December, Lee was one of three Crimson grapplers to take third at EIWAs, but went on to lose both of his NCAA tournament matches to Ohio’s Joe Weimer and Missouri’s Jeff Foust...
...that the fine he faces for disobeying the prosecutor's warning comes to €4.50 - the modern equivalent of the 30 franc penalty set for such infractions in a 1946 revision of the Civil Code. That's one remnant of the past that advocates of gay marriage are not keen to see change...