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...scariest thing you can say about a Democratic presidential candidate at this early stage of the game: John Kerry is starting to look like a front runner. "Perish the word--please!" the Massachusetts Senator said last week when that possibility was gently broached. "I think of myself more as an insurgent against George Bush and the Establishment...
...Saturday, the North jumped out to a 7-0 lead and soon after recovered Heisman runner-up Brad Banks’ fumble in South territory. On the next play, Texas Tech quarterback Kliff Kingsbury, who led the NCAA in passing yards this season, pitched the ball to Morris behind the line of scrimmage. Morris found fellow Division 1-AA wide receiver David Kircus of Grand Valley State for the touchdown...
...which suggests that however wide the field, the fight for the nomination could be all but over only weeks after the Iowa caucuses. "It won't be the distance runner who wins," says former Clinton White House chief of staff John Podesta, a Daschle strategist. "This time it's the sprinter." At this rate, they will all be exhausted before the starting...
Thank you for your story on arthritis [HEALTH, Dec. 9]. I was a very active child, always participating in sports throughout school. In my late teens, I discovered the runner's high and never looked back--until one morning I woke up and couldn't get out of bed. I thought it was Lyme disease, but instead I got the news that it was rheumatoid arthritis. I was 26, and I felt as if my life had been taken away from me--I would never run again. But I found a great doctor who prescribed a life-changing drug...
...hyperactivity at work is mirrored in her personal life. She walks fast with the long strides of a runner; she speaks without a filter--just a few words will set her off on a discourse about heart disease or what's wrong with the criminal-justice system. Her fiercest exclamations are "Well, heck!" and "Oh, my gosh!" She often leaps to her feet to make a point, waves her arms, pounds her fist and attempts impersonations of the characters in her stories, practically dancing in place while Ross lies on the turquoise leather sofa and the kids go about their...