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...joined homecoming weekend as a favorite autumn pastime. Which highlight is No. 1? When he juked an Oregon defender while wearing one shoe? When he stopped on a dime, watched a Fresno State defender fly by and darted across the field for a 50-yd. touchdown? Perhaps his quantum leap over a UCLA cornerback, legs split high in the air ŕ la Michael Jordan, finished with a flip into the end zone like a Hollywood stuntman? Bush, downplaying his theatrics, won't pick a favorite. "It's just like playing football with your friends out in the street," he told...
...again. Others doubt whether Europe's current crisis-laden leadership has the clout and vision necessary to deliver any viable solutions. "The European integration process is in a very different place now to 10 or 20 years ago, and I don't think many people have made the mental leap needed to reflect that," says Mark Leonard, director of foreign policy at the cer and author of Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century. "We now have a single currency, a common foreign and security policy, and an external relations impact on places like the Balkans and Iran...
Taking the leap of faith of a semester or a year off can be a perfect change. Eric’s year off had all the right conditions for a productive and life-changing experience. But other situations are not as clear-cut, and these experiences should be considered, too. “Taking time off does have its consequences,” Gillis says. “And I wish I had measured those consequences more...
Despite Ruella's having little interest in fashion when she was asked to join the burgeoning business in 1991, she took a leap of faith, ?not because of zebra and leopard prints,? she laughs, referring to the prints that reappear in almost all their interiors and their work spaces, ?but because of the possibility of the numbers...
...Watch the jersey: when a player comes down from a dunk, it floats and settles around his bod the way a real uniform would. That's the kind of wildly realistic touch that makes NBA 2K6 a Kobe-size leap forward. And it translates into game play. You get more control of your player on the floort -- he way he jukes and jives to break free of a defender or shadow an attacker. You're not just triggering preset animations; you're also right there in the game. And that's where you want...