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...experiences, from taking their clothes off to beating people up. This was not a group that was going to pick Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. So I had a moment of panic when Xzibit, the first to read from his list, named Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. This was followed by relief when he said, "Because he always has a tight blazer on." The others weren't so excited about Ahmadinejad, but they all agreed with Xzibit that Al Gore is the most important person in the world. Gore, they said, is the only politician who matters since he is the only...
...Crist is no Jeb Bush. In fact, his record so far is undoing much of what the younger Bush son started. In his first 100 days, Crist announced efforts to provide hurricane-insurance relief, ditch controversial touch-screen voting machines for ones with a paper trail, create a "children's cabinet" to fix Florida's dysfunctional child-welfare services, increase teacher pay by $300 million and reduce the state's overcrowded classrooms, convene a summit on global warming, promote stem-cell research and restore voting rights to felons who complete their sentences (which he did last month). At one point...
...continental U.S. states, explored Northern Iceland in blizzard conditions, toured medical clinics in El Salvador, led school children on a hiking trip in rural China, conducted religious studies onboard a ship in the Caribbean, and traveled to Baton Rouge only days after Hurricane Katrina to aid in relief efforts. With his bank of images and experiences rapidly expanding, Collins’s drive to promote change through his artwork continues to deepen. “I want to influence communities and try to make as big of an impact as I can with my artwork,” he says...
...promptly escaped the jam with one pitch—Dave Fisher lined it back through the box, Watson nabbed it, and sent it over to third base to double off the baserunner. He went on to deliver his most impressive performance to date: 3 1/3 innings of hitless relief to go with five strikeouts...
Freshman Dana Roberts set down Dartmouth in the final two innings as Harvard clinched the win. She came on in the first after junior Amanda Watkins had trouble getting out of the inning, in which the Big Green scored three runs. Roberts threw six and two-thirds innings of relief and improved to 6-5 on the season...