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...Having such a jumbo-size personality on your team is not without its drawbacks. Rendell has a penchant for speaking his mind in ways that make for good headlines but aren't always on message. In February, for instance, he told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial board that some whites in the state "are probably not ready to vote for an African-American candidate." As evidence, he offered his own 2006 reelection over challenger and former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Lynn Swann: "Had Lynn Swann been the identical candidate that he was-well-spoken, charismatic, good-looking-but white instead...
...She’s elevated her development on all levels.”Vaillancourt’s rise to becoming one of the top all-around players in the nation has set an example for her teammates, particularly freshman Liza Ryabkina—another highly skilled player with a penchant for charging the net every time she touches the puck.Vaillancourt has taken Ryabkina under her wing—“whether Liza likes it or not,” as Stone puts it—in hopes of instilling that same type of well-rounded mentality that could take...
...which frantic locals fought with shell-shocked British citizens for spots on the rescue boat. Sandwiched between the two events was a rotating cast of corrupt customs officials, traumatized crash victims, a blood-lusty press corps, unidentified bodies showing up in the morgue, ill-equipped local doctors with a penchant for amputation, grieving family members and looters...
...Leung, professor in translational public health at the University of Hong Kong. "They may also want some predictability in the time and day the baby is born" - allowing for a smoother departure from the workplace, and letting fathers and grandparents know when to take time off. The famous Asian penchant for astrology can even be indulged. "Whenever there is an auspicious date, there will be a planned cesarean," says Singaporean doula Ginny Phang (a doula is a private birthing coach who is not part of the hospital team...
What's French for "be careful what you wish for?" Just ask the 19 million voters who flocked to the straight-talking, populist presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy last spring. Many of them apparently now find themselves mortified by their president's flashy private life and penchant for talking trash. Recent surveys show Sarkozy's approval rating falling to new lows of 38%, and pollsters are attributing the decline to voters' spying a vulgarity in their president incompatible with their standards for the office. Apparently, Sarkozy isn't getting the message. On the weekend jaws dropped anew as he publicly insulted...