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...racial stereotyping. In focusing on the physiques of Maoris and Islanders, it's easy to overlook other, perhaps more important, factors in their growing presence in elite football - motivation, hard work, and early exposure to competition. "Polynesians have no genetic predisposition to be good at football," says Helen Lee, a lecturer in sociology and anthropology at Melbourne's LaTrobe University. "But on a general level, Polynesian men do tend to be large built. They do tend to put on a lot of muscle easily...
...sorriest bunch of bureaucratic jackasses I've ever known." Yet the agency is caught flat-footed again when Hurricane Andrew overwhelms southern Florida in 1992, leaving 160,000 people homeless and probably costing Bush the next election. SUCCESS FAILURE Bill Clinton 1993-2001 AID ABOUNDS New FEMA Director James Lee Witt makes the agency more proactive. Project Impact, designed to target and equip high-risk areas, doles out funds in flood-prone regions and earthquake zones. The agency earns kudos for its prompt response to Midwestern floods that cause $15 billion in damage in 1993, although detractors call FEMA bloated...
...George H.W. Bush - or rather, his designated sleazeball Lee Atwater - gave us the first truly ugly August, in 1988. Atwater had conducted a series of focus groups among blue collar Democrats in Paramus, N.J., in May and found all sorts of fodder: Michael Dukakis was "against" the Pledge of Allegiance. More substantively, Dukakis ran a weekend prison-release program in Massachusetts that allowed an African-American felon named Willie Horton to go on a killing spree. But what was most distinctive was a new tone: a derisive, sarcastic negativity that predicted, and enabled, Rush Limbaugh's brilliant, destructive trade...
...Joining Martin on the committee are William F. Lee '72 , a former member of the Harvard Board of Overseers and co-managing partner of the large Boston law firm WilmerHale; Mark H. Moore, a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School; government department chair Nancy L. Rosenblum; Matthew L. Sundquist '09, president of the Undergraduate Council; and Harvard Law School professor David B. Wilkins...
JUNE 13 A lip-synching Amber Lee Ettinger--a.k.a. Obama Girl--goes on YouTube to declare the most famous crush in modern political history...