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...chilly Friday night, and the varsity cheerleaders of Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Md., can see their breath as they cheer for their football team, the Vikings. The girls bounce, tumble and lift smaller members onto human towers. The Viking princesses wear their hair in neat ponytails, scrubbed faces straining with smiles, voices rubbed raw with exertion. A girl with springs for legs does backflips along the edge of the field. "We didn't do stunts like this when I was a cheerleader, many moons ago," sighs Brenda LeGrand, their coach...
...look much further than Robert Tools. The 59-year-old grandfather and retired technical librarian had suffered from congestive heart failure for two years; by last June he was getting ready to die. His liver and kidneys had nearly quit, and he could hardly muster the strength to lift his head off the pillow. His doctors ruled that he was too ill for a heart transplant. They gave him less than one month to live...
...encouraged by my producers to resist my temptation to include novelty songs on this one, as I've always done before. I'm glad we did. This CD has a serious tone, but I hope it still has a lift...
When Bush stepped in front of the cameras on Friday to make his case that progress was being made, the focus and lift of his earlier speeches was all but gone. It suggested the toll these days are taking on him--what Bush has called his destiny and life's purpose is also his terrible burden--and it helped explain the White House reluctance to have him rally the nation on a daily basis. At some point his repetition of how we will smoke out the Evil One will lose its blunt impact, if it hasn't done so already...
...surprising that Incubus was the only major act scheduled to perform in New York City the week of Sept. 11 that actually did so. "I almost felt like it was our responsibility to step out of the fear we were experiencing," says Boyd, "and--this sounds stupid--try to lift people up a little...