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...It’s been great getting to know them and seeing the team coming together like a great group of friends,” Mangan said. “It definitely helps to have teammates that can push you a lot in practice. I’m really proud of them...
...responsibilities of the legislative branch. No longer can members of Congress convene for a few months in the spring while spending the rest of the year on their farms. The greater power has added bureaucracy and it often takes the clout and leverage of an elder statesman to push through legislation: just look at the prolific careers of Ted Kennedy or Everett Dirksen...
Newt Gingrich included a constitutional amendment to limit politicians to 12 years in both the House and the Senate in his 1994 Contract with America. But it was one plank of the contract that even Gingrich couldn't push through the House: it failed two months into Gingrich's speakership 227 to 204. A constitutional amendment requires a two-thirds majority (at that time 290 votes were needed) plus a two-thirds majority in the Senate and it must be ratified by two-thirds of the states - making any changes to the current system unlikely in the near future...
When German curling skip Andy Kapp yells at his teammates, imploring them to sweep their brooms faster, he sounds as if someone has poured scorching-hot water on his head. "Arrrgh!" his grunts echo throughout the Vancouver curling venue. "Push," he yells in German. "Hard! Fast!" In curling, the skip's job is to tell his teammates where to throw their stones to the house, that dartboard-looking scoring area on the ice (an explanation of how curling works requires a textbook - just know that in the end, if your stone is closest to the bull's-eye, that...
During curling's run in the Olympics every four years, much of the sports-viewing world gets either strangely addicted or totally bemused by watching the old guys push stones and sweep brooms in what often looks like shuffleboard on ice. But at this year's event, emotions seem to be at an all-time high. Every day, capacity crowds of 5,600 are filling the Vancouver Olympic Centre, mostly to cheer on Canada, home to 729,000 of the 1.1 million curlers around the globe. The atmosphere is even more electric than the scenes in arenas for other sports...