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...spent an hour each week with a private coach, perfecting her technique and learning to twirl as many as three batons, a pair of special twirling knives, and burning baton.For the uninitiated, baton twirlers perform a coordinated routine that combines dance and gymnastics, while simultaneously tossing a weighted metal rod. Twirlers often perform with competitive marching bands, most popular at large state universities and high schools in the midwest and south.Liles’ story began among the cow pastures of Rockdale, Texas. After she was admitted to Harvard, Liles, who lives in the rural Texan town, e-mailed...
...advantage. At a town hall that McCain and Curt Schilling held here on Wednesday, for example, 400 people packed in, and fire marshals turned latecomers away. The opening music was from Irish punk band the Dropkick Murphys. There were lots of children and questions about A-Rod in addition to the usual ones about Iraq...
...control illegal logging and land-clearing because much of it takes place in remote areas of the vast Indonesian archipelago, beyond the reach of the law. "Even if you have money coming in, how [is the government] going to be able to assert control in these frontier places?" asks Rod Taylor, WWF International's forests program director. Indonesia's Minister of Forestry, M.S. Kaban, says this problem has been solved. "The burning is stopped. Our people are very committed," Kaban says. He notes that there were more than 7,000 criminal cases brought against illegal loggers in 2005; the crackdown...
...Minus a smoking gun, A-Rod shouldn't expect much help from the arbitrators. Back in the 1980s, the evidence was stark. The arbitrator found, for example, that the American League president and two owners - Jerry Reinsdorf, who still controls the Chicago White Sox, and one Bud Selig, then owner of the Milwaukee Brewers - called the president of the Philadelphia Phillies to dissuade him from signing Lance Parrish, a free agent catcher from the Detroit Tigers...
...with Rodriguez on the team? Zero. The Yankees traded for that contract after the '03 season (he was set to make about $27 million per year on the last three years of that deal before he opted out), and how many World Series titles did they win with A-Rod? Zero. Meanwhile, the Colorado Rockies and Cleveland Indians - one team the National League champ, the other one game from a pennant - invested in young, relatively cheap talent and succeeded...