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Theodore Roosevelt bragged, as if he had created the Panama Canal with his bare hands, "I took the Canal Zone, and let Congress debate." Teddy's battering-ram shoulder did wonders, but private concerns had already made attempts to cut through the isthmus, even in failure showing it could be done. T.R. knew the time was ripe. Soil conservation was a science long before Franklin Roosevelt lifted it to the top of the national agenda and we began to heal the washed and windblown land. Ike grasped the importance of a huge interstate highway system. His endorsement helped push...
Steve Mahre finished third behind Phil and Stenmark in the World Cup standings last year. Hindered by a shoulder injury this season, he stood ninth last week. Having followed four minutes behind his brother 25 years ago, Steve says good-naturedly, "I've been trying to catch up ever since." It delights him to have closed the gap to less than a second down a crooked mile...
...patter of a complex, sometimes convoluted, urban street culture that includes rap music, graffiti art and dancing that goes by a couple of generic styles and several specific names. Like spray-painted murals down the side of a New York City subway, or a ghetto blaster carried on a shoulder broadcasting 130 beats a minute all over a Bronx street, this subculture, nicknamed hip hop, is about assertiveness, display, pride, status and competition, particularly among males. Clothes are not only a part of this offhand cultural statement; they are a kind of uniform for cultural challenge...
Even Sarah's watch on Plympton Street from the balcony of the Crimson building turns into "Professors on Parade." "Then the famous political theorist Stanley Hoffman walked by with a green book bag over his shoulder, his figure fine, meticulous, strong...
Nonetheless, argue the rule's backers, a judge has to look intently over the policeman's shoulder in order to keep the process as pure as possible. "Law enforcement must be sound and aggressive," insists Maryland Attorney General Stephen Sachs, "but citizens must see law enforcement as law-abiding. The government should not stoop to conquer...