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While working up a 20-minute sweat, Jesse ("the Body") trashes the press, talks budget strategy, shares foreign-policy views and taunts a former pro-wrestling nemesis named Jerry ("the King") Lawler...
...hard to figure out why we look to the athletic arena for heroes. No ancient Greek dramaturge would turn his back on material like this: one man tested in crisis; the victor emergent from the sweat and roil of combat; gifted with superhuman size and godlike strength; and, perhaps most important, confronted with the brutal and inescapable vulnerability that all great athletes must face--the daily threat that an inferior force might vanquish them. Athletic heroism attains the heights of glory through its very proximity to defeat. And it dramatizes the worth of workaday values we want our kids...
Hennefeld said about 20 PSLM members attended the 1 p.m. rally. They handed out leaflets and chanted "no sweat" to protest sweatshops, "living wage" to call for a wage high enough for workers to pay for basic needs, and "full disclosure" for the full disclosure of information about the factories...
...year has been a rough one for both funds, as tumultuous markets both here and abroad have made professional investors sweat. Even the stewards of Harvard's multi-billion endowment are looking to break even this year after devastating losses at home and abroad...
Moreover, perhaps the greatest lesson that I have learned is that the students of this campus don't just want a servant. They want a leader. Without doubt, I served. I put in the hours and the days and the weeks and the months, certainly the sweat and on some occasion the tears. I did things past presidents would have considered unpresidential--like wear sandwich boards and bring poster board to meetings to make signs to help delegates advertise events...