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Parker’s quiet approach encourages the rowers to make themselves better of their own accord. He won’t yell or ride a rower until he gets results, but if his coaching cannot motivate a rower to perform at his peak, little else will...
...like Kastner, was pleased to report that partisanship on campus was on the increase. Indeed, Grech launched an interesting defense of political partisanship by suggesting that it “provokes an intellectual discourse because if students always like to ride the fence, they will not engage an issue as deeply as if they picked one side and were forced to defend it.” Unfortunately for Grech’s theory, partisanship, Harvard-style, involves far more leaflet distribution than policy deliberation...
...migraines went away. People who couldn’t speak in class were able to speak. Those with phobias were no longer afraid to fly, or to ride an elevator, or to pet a dog,” Powell said...
...Kramnik's supporters who watched Game 6 unfold over nearly four hours were in for an emotional roller-coaster ride. Before any moves were played, the champion was all smiles and his handlers suggested that he would easily win the $1-million match by milking his then one-game advantage and simply drawing the last three games. The Fritz team insisted that it would not be so easy for the world champion to play the calculating monster to a draw. "We are going to go down fighting," said Frederic Friedel, "he'll be nervous after [his loss in] game...
...desiccated tidal waves, burying houses, blocking streets and suffocating the vines and the mulberry, fig and pomegranate trees that once blossomed here. The 600 villagers survive by gathering desert thornbushes?used for lighting fires?and trading them for access to fetid water from a ditch half a day's ride away by donkey. Abdul Shakur, 63, says every few weeks a huge sandstorm traps him, his wife and their 11 children inside their hut for days on end. Four months ago, the storm came at night and lasted four days; Shakur and his neighbors dug out a family of five...