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...should come as no surprise, then, that the 24 children in Korn's class had never seen a lacrosse stick before she introduced one. The predominantly white sport popular at Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic universities requires two things New York City public schools don't have: money and fields. But given the election, it was, after all, a week of firsts. "All of our students were excited about the election," said Anderson. "For us educators, Obama's victory means that when we tell these students that they can do anything, it's not hyperbole." And so, on an unseasonably warm...
...Nevermind that they'd never seen a lacrosse game, much less played in one; Anderson believes in giving students a lacrosse stick and the chance to play their way to a better education. "Ideally, I want to see about 60 percent of the kids who started with us at go on to boarding schools or private schools," says Anderson. Enter Korn's father, Rick, a former player who helped coach his own son to the Division-I level; Bob Turco, a Harlem-born lacrosse coaching legend who played his way to Washington and Lee University in the '70s; and Ross...
...health-food store manager from Queens, N.Y., has broken more than 200 records. He notched his first in 1979 by doing more than 27,000 jumping jacks, and has since hop-scotched the globe in search of new marks, tacking on records for rope-skipping (on a pogo stick) at Cambodia's Angkor Wat, hula-hooping at Australia's Ayers Rock, and traveling the entire 12-mile length of Paul Revere's Massachusetts ride in forward rolls. "I'm trying to show others that our human capacity is unlimited if we can truly believe in ourselves," Furman wrote...
...more forgettable tracks such as “Distorted,” “Bad Side,” and “Phantom.” Pain makes an attempt at a heart-felt ballad on “Keep Going” that proves he should stick to producing club hits and respecting the power of Auto-Tune. His second rapping track “Karaoke” features the cool and haunting background vocals of a gospel choir, but is butchered by the inexplicable and crazy yelling of DJ Khaled. “Thr33 Ringz?...
...bought him some time to pull together a foreign policy team and decide where he really stands on the deployment of missile defense to Europe. As former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage used to say, "Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggy' while looking for a stick...