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...more motivated than I've ever been. Mentally it feels to me like 1998--but with less to prove. When I get in the gym every day, I go for it. I attack it. I feel like that's where I should be. That says to me that even at 37 years old, I will still be able to be somewhat competitive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Lance Armstrong | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...dropped four straight contests, and after a devastating 6-0 shutout against the University of Pennsylvania last weekend, Cornell is still looking to prove it’s capable of staying competitive. This week’s matchup is the Big Red’s first out-of-state game this season, marking the latest in program history that it has ventured outside of New York to play...

Author: By Evan Kendall, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Hopes For More Cornell Success | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...attentions of America’s youth, it has become very easy—too easy—to issue a woeful jeremiad about our culture’s inexorable backslide. It seems clear that active measures to adapt literacy education to the changing tastes of our youth would prove altogether more effectual than the noisy resignation to predicted intellectual decline that others have been so quick to express. As such, the story in this Sunday’s The New York Times that suggested that many members of the American educational establishment are cautiously optimistic about the role...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Literacy First | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...rappers stereotyping women as shrews and hos as well as the lack of rap love songs. To keep a lady, MURS advocates, “Buy some flowers, open up some doors / She needs tampons, homie, go to the store.”But MURS spends too much time proving his worthiness at the expense of the album’s message. While it’s refreshing to hear a person reject the misogynistic hip-hop image, he sacrifices too much of his “eclectic eccentricity” (touted in “Lookin’ Fly?...

Author: By Candace I. Munroe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MURS | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...every American." The rest of his answer could be used as a template for how to deal with a complex issue in a town-hall debate. He began with a personal story: his mother, dying of cancer at age 53, having to fight her insurance company, trying to prove that her disease had not been a pre-existing condition. He broadened that into a general proposition about the proper role of government: "It is absolutely true that I think it is important for government to crack down on insurance companies that are cheating their customers." And finally, he transformed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Obama Surge: Will It Last? | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

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