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Perhaps people have some stereotypes about athletes because of their limited contact with them. I, however, have seen a baseball player cut to the heart of romantic poetry, a lacrosse player with a rock-solid grasp of electoral reform, a rower receive top grades in statistics and calculus, another rower who, in addition to working an outside job, was a teaching fellow in engineering, and yes, I’ve seen a football player with the ability to converse about American literature with the profundity of a tenured professor. These are all varsity athletes, all clearly demonstrating more than enough...
...placed on a second bus to another. At this point, all Anne is asking for is normalcy. "It does not matter if it's private or public school," she says. "The most important thing is my children's happiness." --With reporting by Melissa August/ Washington, Steve Barnes/Little Rock, Deborah Fowler and Sonja Steptoe/Houston and Kathie Klarreich/Sandestin
With all the pitfalls President Bush has navigated in five tumultuous years, the one worry he has rarely confronted is rebellion in his own ranks. But House Republicans, his rock, are increasingly restive about the effect that the president?s expansive plans for rebuilding the Gulf Coast could have on the nation?s already massive budget deficits...
...Cosby question--he's heard it before. Chris Rock knows his history well enough to know the parallel: in 1984 a black comic turned his stand-up act into a fresh-voiced family comedy that revived the sitcom genre when, like now, pundits were reading it the last rites. But suggest that UPN's Everybody Hates Chris, which Rock created and narrates, could be today's Great Black Hope, and the comic waxes unphilosophical. "If it's good, it'll work. If not, it won't work." Shrug. Silence. Move...
BATON ROUGE, La.—Caroline E. Sloan ’07, horrified and numb, sat in a Little Rock, Ark. Doubletree Hotel room, scanning for her home in the flicker of the television screen...