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...dedication meant that the coaching staff felt comfortable putting her into the game against Dartmouth, only two weeks after she was first able to lace up skates again...
Despite all the preparation, Ryabkina didn’t get doctor’s clearance to play until the night before the game. The short notice—and long layoff—meant nerves were inevitable...
Palin's quote was apt, though, in that her weeklong media blitz seemed to be testing the waters for a new kind of public influence, one outside the politics-as-usual path of "holding office" and "governing" and "finishing your term." And if it meant going through the mainstream media--which Going Rogue calls "in many respects, worthless as a source of factual information anymore"--well, a rogue's gotta do what a rogue's gotta...
...each--and invited my friend Jonathan Karsh, a reality-show producer and an excellent home cook, to try them. The first thing we noticed was how right Balzer was about the way we embrace prepared meals. Several times I said I had better "start cooking" when I meant "start microwaving." I was able to open the boxes with a knife from the Top Chef cutlery set the show sent me and pair the food with a Top Chef--branded Quickfire cabernet sauvignon (which was surprisingly good and, at $19, surprisingly expensive). I was expecting a Top Chef robot to feed...
...Maybe it wasn’t meant to be for me to break the record,” Akpan said...