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...Katie Root of tiny Crandall, Texas, says the trouble starts with how deceptively easy and fun it all looks. "People say, 'I want to be a cheerleader, woohoo, I'm done,' but it's not like that," explains the petite 13-year-old, a wrinkle creasing her young brow. You need muscle for lifts and precision up in the air, and there's a constant risk of injury. "What we do takes as much preparation as football. People don't understand how much pressure...
...heart goes out to the bombing victims. I know that brave Londoners will bounce back, as they have so many times before. It is high time the British and U.S. governments go after the root cause of the jihadist problem, namely the fundamentalist mullahs and Islamist preachers who hide behind a façade of being religious men as they sow seeds of hatred and violence among young Muslims. Those preachers are evil and should be treated as terrorists and fully prosecuted. That would rid the Muslim community of some real troublemakers and ultimately help young and mainstream Muslims...
...late as 1708 in Britain, a child of 7 could be hanged for stealing, and some of the most dangerous factory jobs could be performed only by children because of their size. The whole idea of adolescence as a period of turmoil and rebellion, historians note, could take root only once children were safe from the fields and factories and were growing up in a sheltered setting...
...left who remember Black Jack Wilson and Fritz Ostermueller from the ?30s. Whatever . . . The club is prospering. There has been serious talk of starting a BLOHARDS chapter in Chicago-there are plenty of Red Sox fans there. Most of them don?t recall Irene Hennessey, but they root for the Sox. That?s what counts...
...Islamic civilization helped give birth to the European Renaissance. Some of the first universities in recorded history sprang up in 3rd century Iran, 9th century Baghdad and 10th century Cairo. The Muslim world gave us mocha coffee, the guitar and even the Spanish expression olé! (which has its root in the Arabic word Allah). Muslim students would learn there is no shame in defending the values of pluralism. Non-Muslim students would learn that those values took great inspiration from Islamic culture. All would learn that Islam and the West are more interdependent than divided...