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...civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country," Tancredo declared, Americans "put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House ... Barack Hussein Obama" - with an ominous emphasis on the President's middle name. Perhaps the most talked-about book of the convention was The 5,000 Year Leap, by the late right-wing writer W. Cleon Skousen, which argues that the Founding Fathers set up the U.S. on firm Christian bedrock and designed the Constitution to maximize individual liberty and free enterprise. Speaker after speaker commended the volume, a favorite of Glenn Beck's, and though...
Casey’s rare combination of size (6’7) and athleticism (he has a 42 inch vertical leap) is part of the formula that has allowed the freshman to succeed at such a young...
Luckily for the Crimson, it has a strong core of improving underclassmen who could help Harvard make that leap. Freshmen have stepped up early in their collegiate careers for a Crimson team that is looking to close the gap on the regional powers. Their performances and those of their teammates have helped Harvard coaches City and Tim Mitchell attract a strong recruiting class for next year...
...women’s side, the freshmen had the most success. Olivia Weeks won the triple jump event, with a 12.10-meter leap. Fellow first-year Mary Hirst took the title in the high jump, with a 1.65-meter bound, while her teammate, junior Dina Emde, finished second. To top it off, freshman Ashtynn Baltimore and sophomore Christine Reed also finished one-two in the 60-meter hurdles, with respective times of 8.88 and 8.95 seconds. It was an improvement for both, as Baltimore finished second and Reed seventh in the same event last weekend...
...true, it doesn't make any sense at all," says Andrew Friedman, a food writer whose compelling study of last year's contest, Knives at Dawn, came out in December. "It's a leap of faith. First you take the leap, then decide it's something worth doing and then you get obsessed...