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...What saddens me are students who think, because they’re sophomores or juniors in college, it’s too late to learn such-and-such languages,” she says...
...Republican means moving toward political extremes, while being a moderate Republican means imminent unemployment. More importantly, it shows that the GOP is either drifting right on purpose or is just powerless to stop itself. Specter’s close defeat of Toomey in 2004 was likely thanks to a late endorsement from former President George W. Bush. In this way, the president protected the existence of moderate Republicans, keeping his party diverse and balanced. However, there is no such central authority in today’s Republican Party. This lack of leadership and unity is apparent in Specter?...
Suddenly, however, it all stopped. After leaving the New York Mets for the Los Angeles Dodgers after the 1990 season, drug and alcohol addiction killed Strawberry's career. He enjoyed a resurgence as a role player with the great New York Yankees teams of the late-1990s. But even that ride ended badly, with Strawberry in jail for using drugs once again. Now the ex-Rookie of the Year offers a raw, honest portrayal of his story in a new autobiography, Straw: Finding My Way. The book comes out April 28th: Strawberry talked to Time's Sean Gregory about abuse...
...accustomed to playing under the pressure. I was accustomed to people yelling and booing when you weren't playing well. I thought it would be great to go home to California. It's baseball, but it's not intensity baseball. It's more laid back. The fans come late and leave early. I was like 'Oh, my God.' Because the fans play a big part of what...
...drink. Waking up late one morning after a night in the bars of Singapore's Emerald Hill neighborhood, Troy Toon groggily admits he's still partying "though I try to have fewer drinks." A 29-year-old web designer, Toon says the downturn hasn?t driven away his customers, even if they are more frequently asking for discounts. "Some of them have been asking rates to go down by about a fifth," he says. So far Toon has been compensating for this lost revenue by being abstemious with taxis and other incidental expenses. "We're not facing too much trouble...