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...Anyone who thinks rope skipping is child's play hasn?t been to the 3-hour-a-day practices run by coach Ray Frederick, Jr., of the Bouncing Bulldogs in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In a typical session, team members climb 2000 to 3000 football stadium steps and do 500 one-footed jumping jacks. That hard work has paid off. "We've won the national championship three years in a row now, and that's never happened before," says Frederick, whose team currently consists of 95 boys and girls, ranging from ages...
...Wibaux, the young man I met at a Harvard Model Congress Europe session in Paris, whose great-grandfather Pierre ranched in Dakota Territory and for whom Wibaux County in Eastern Montana is named...
...January, as you know, is a time when Faculty as well as students have a lot of to do that they are not able to accomplish when classes are in session,” historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich wrote in an e-mail. “[The] FAS does indeed have important business to conduct this year, but the most important business also requires prior preparation...
Ford did have a private source of spiritual sustenance, which was in every way different from Nixon's public displays of piety. For years Ford faithfully attended a weekly late-morning prayer session with several friends in the House: John Rhodes of Arizona, Mel Laird of Wisconsin and Al Quie of Minnesota. The sessions, which began in 1967 and continued off and on through 1975, were "very quiet," totally off the record, Ford said. Talk about going to Bible study, he worried, and people might get the idea that you think you're somehow better than they...
...Undoubtedly some of the returnees were secretly thinking about their next break, as the workload has become heavier since last session. Reid has said senators will be expected for votes five days a week - an unheard-of time commitment under G.O.P. rule. And under Reid's new schedule, Congress won't even get its first recess for seven weeks...