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...good at but marvels over Chelsea's devotion to ballet, how her feet bled after practice, how she worked hard at it because she loved it regardless of how good she was at it. "I've always admired that," Clinton says. "I've wondered whether I could ever stick with something for its own sake." He was one to gather laurels; she preferred to share them. Clinton suggests that she chose Stanford over Harvard partly because Harvard seemed too eager to recruit a President's daughter; she declined to apply for a Rhodes scholarship, after being nominated by Stanford, because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Ties: The Other Bill Clinton | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

...really happy with [my race],” Pohorence said. “I was a little nervous at the beginning because there were a ton of Yale guys around us...I just tried to stick in there and not worry about what I was doing so much, just hang with their guys...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Men and Women Runners Sweep Bulldogs | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

...tactics to stick with Yale’s third guy,” Gilmour explained, “and then we felt pretty good so Sean, Ryan, and I stuck together and settled on Yale’s top two guys...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Men and Women Runners Sweep Bulldogs | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

Coming off a four-game losing streak, Harvard (4-4, 1-2 Ivy) entered the match searching for its first Ivy League victory. It seized the win with junior forward Chloe Keating’s stick 1:28 into sudden death...

Author: By Timothy J. Walsh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Keating Gives Crimson Sudden-Death Victory | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

...government told the farmers, however, that jatropha seeds can be pressed to make biofuel and that scientists believed the plant's seeds contained more oil than other biofuel crops. Even better, the government said, jatropha needed little tending. All you had to do was stick it in the ground and watch it grow. Best of all for Kibwezi, a place that's frequently stricken by drought, scientists believed that the plant thrived on arid land. Convinced they could reap large profits from the plant in the global craze for alternative energy sources, hundreds of farmers turned over acres of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How a Biofuel 'Miracle' Ruined Kenyan Farmers | 10/4/2009 | See Source »

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