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Texas Democratic Representative Pete Geren, who nominated Zamora, a constituent, for Annapolis, sees the case as "a horrible aberration" that should not change the academies' selection process. "There aren't too many accomplished people," he says, "able to hide such dark sides." That's what's so haunting about this case: if found guilty (attorneys say the pair will plead innocent), it will appear that the same determination that brought success in classrooms and on athletic fields led them to view Jones as just another obstacle to what they wanted, another obstacle to be removed...
Kennedy had the Cold War to spur a nation to action. We don't have that, but we can create a war on the educational front. California's Republican Gov. Pete Wilson this year implemented a law requiring elementary school classes to contain no more than 20 students; Clinton should do the same nationally. He should up the ante on science and math education, selling bonds to support funding just as if we were trying to best the Russians in space...
...serve landed out, which on the one hand did not allow Corretja to hit it for an easy winner, and prolonged the match which was now difficult to watch Pete looked...
...Then Pete did something unbelievable. He cracked a second-serve ace wide to the deuce court to set up a match point. Boston Globe sportswriter and general tennis guru Bud Collins described it as the single greatest swing of a tennis racket he had ever seen. It was one of those moments in sports that brings you out of your seat, no matter where you are or when...
When someone performs like Pete Sampras did at the U.S. Open, it is not about what a great athlete can do, but about what a person can achieve when he or she wants to. This makes sport, at any level, the glorious thing that...