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...Brook Mark, COLORADO SPRINGS...
...Robert Bennett, chief co-sponsor of the Wyden-Bennett health proposal that was the best hope for truly market-oriented health care reform? Bennett now faces a serious nomination challenge. Once the excitement of Massachusetts subsides, who'll champion the non-CPAC-style Senators on the ballot in 2010: Mark Kirk from Illinois or Rob Portman from Ohio...
...Ohio and Mississippi rivers, in the heart of a region called Little Egypt for the resemblance it bears to the flat, loamy landscape of the Nile River Delta. Charles Dickens, after a visit in 1842, dubbed Cairo a "dismal swamp ... uncheered by any gleam of promise," although Mark Twain rehabilitated its image 40 years later, making it the destination of Huck and Jim's river voyage in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. At its 1920s peak, Cairo was a boomtown of 15,000 people. But as river trade declined, so did Cairo. In the 1960s and '70s, the town was engulfed...
...power of nature," says Clark, now 52. For years, Clark tried to spread the word that Mavericks existed, but the pros scoffed. The common assumption was that really big waves broke only in Hawaii. But Mavericks gained its fearsome notoriety in 1994 when one of surfing's greats, Hawaiian Mark Foo, wiped out in an 18-footer and drowned, presumably snagged in the rock-filled cauldron. One of this year's contestants, Darryl (The Flea) Virostko (who, friends say, once surfed Mavericks while tripping on LSD) is credited with undergoing the most spectacular wipeout ever filmed when he rode...
...Mark A. Isaacson ’11 is a government concentrator in Kirkland House. His column appears on alternate Thursdays...