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...late-career success to yogic breathing during his swing. Spain's Ignacio Garrido said his win in the 2003 European PGA Championship stemmed from "practicing less, reading more" - particularly the works of spiritual guru Deepak Chopra. And Nick Bradley, Rose's Buddhist coach, told TIME that he advises his pupil to remember in the heat of battle that "even at a rock concert there's silence, if you take the noise away...
...easy to see something of the Dalai Lama in his pupil. The Karmapa is a sturdy young man, spectacles clinging to his round shaved head, pebbled brown half boots peeking out from beneath the robe. He actually does smile, and even jokes, impishly describing the stop-start-stop process of New York traffic. He appears to be that rare combination: a born listener who speaks with almost utter assurance, even on controversial subjects. Before his visit, his American retinue stressed that the Kagyu lineage is historically apolitical, but in person he was less circumspect, telling Time...
...right now"), he was a 12-year-old in a detention home when trainer-manager Cus d'Amato became his surrogate father, raising Mike with the d'Amato family, giving the boy focus and purpose as a boxer ("He broke me down and rebuilt me"). Tyson was an apt pupil: he obsessively studied old films of boxing legends, learned the spiritual side of the warrior mentality and, he says, "restrained myself from having sex for about five years." He tore through the amateur ranks, knocking out one opponent in a record eight seconds, and was heavyweight champ before...
...improvement.”“I think it’s important to know that there are objective sources that have indicated that we’ve made substantial progress,” Fowler-Finn said. The district also has the resources for progress, with a per-pupil expenditure of $25,000—almost double the state average of $13,000. McGovern cited free all-day kindergarten, the variety of elementary schools, small class sizes, school choice busing, and free sports as examples of how “much of what we’re doing with...
...English countryside, the play is split between 1809 and 1989, cutting between two independent casts of characters who cohabit the same elegantly designed room. In the earlier setting, the story centers on the dialogue of the tutor Septimus Hodge (Jonah C. Priour ’09) and his pupil Thomasina Coverly (Sara L. Wright ’09). Several extramarital affairs, one Romanticism-satirizing landscape remodeling, and the fleeting appearance of Lord Byron at the manor comprise the basic machinations of this plot. The modern setting focuses on Hannah Jarvis (Olivia A. Benowitz ’09) and Bernard Nightingale...