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Barack Obama had not been in politics for long when he got his tail whipped by a veteran Chicago Congressman in his own backyard. For a brief period that followed, Obama seemed a bit unsure about what to do with his life--the same kind of unsettling early stumble made by others who went on to seek--and often win--the presidency. Yet within four years, Obama had won a seat in the U.S. Senate. Less than four years after that, he has all but clinched the Democratic nomination for President...
...dropped over the years, and there is no national mandate requiring schools to build it into their curriculums. Even when P.E. is offered, only about half (48%) of all high school girls are enrolled in the class. The numbers start off promising - 70% of freshman girls enroll - but quickly tail off: only 32% stick around by senior year, according to a 2005 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "We're just not teaching kids how to be physically active," says Nicole LaVoi, one of the authors of the Tucker Center report...
...Hyakunin Isshu fan. She humored me by asking me to recite the beginning of one of the poems to see if she could finish it. I proudly trotted out the third poem, in which the 7th century Kakinomoto no Hitomaro uses the metaphor of a mountain pheasant's dragging tail ("The long tail/ of the copper pheasant") to evoke the wistfulness of a long, lonely night. The elderly Mrs. Ueda picked up without hesitation on the third line - "drags on and on" - and ended the poem with a smile. In the moment that followed, we both felt the echo...
...news for the chairs if a lot of the search authorizations come back with no’s on them,” the chair said. “Then you have to go back with your tail between your legs and say ‘we didn’t get that one,’ and then people will say, ‘well how come that group...
...March 2007. (Ramirez and other cutters still handle the most expensive and delicate fabrics by hand.) "If you don't believe in a factory, you don't buy new machinery, and other people beat you at quality and productivity," says Del Vecchio. "It's the dog eating its own tail, and in the end, you have to close. That's the story of a lot of American manufacturing." At the Brooks tie factory, they tell a different...