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...League for soccer this season,” head coach Jamie Clark said. “If he manages to stay healthy, he’ll quite possibly lead the conference in scoring and points. When he’s on the field, he’s second to none.”Fucito is not only number one on the field, but off the field as well.Elected captain by his teammates, Fucito is a paradigm of what it truly means to be a scholar-athlete.As a result of his prowess both on the pitch and in the classroom, Fucito...
...five-part story, à la Shakespeare, but it’s clear that the author neglected to borrow from the literary greats the necessary ingredients of creativity, sophistication, and substance. Reading the book means slogging through a wearing morass of self-aggrandizing anecdotes, utopian musings, and kitschy catchphrases, none used more liberally than “hot, flat, and crowded,” which appears in Friedman’s sermon so many times that it could give John McCain’s “maverick” a run for its money in the race of overuse...
...attract attention to the spot—as popular places for skaters to test out their skills.By offering teenagers the opportunity to invent new tricks, the public spaces gave a lot to skateboarding, but the reverse is also true. Skaters helped give life to places that previously had none, and which, without skating, may never really have served any purpose.“There are many plazas in New York City that are inhospitable to all but the adventurous,” Kayden says. “The idea that skateboarders would use those spaces to me is a vindication...
...troops in Afghanistan and Iraq probably didn't surprise too many jaded citizens. But the news that Maryland State Police had entered the names and personal information of 53 peaceful left-wing activists and protesters into state and federal databases as terrorists, well that may take the cake. None of them had done or thought anything more violent than raising a placard against the war in Iraq and the death penalty. You have to wonder how many more lists like Maryland's are out there...
...told a state legislative hearing earlier this month. The names were entered into the Maryland state database, as well as a federal Washington-Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area database, and some of them may have been shared with the National Security Agency - though current state police officials claim none were entered into the official federal terrorist watch list. All of the victims are being sent letters notifying them of their inclusion in the database, and their information will soon be purged...