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...wouldn't "create an unnecessarily large amount of first-aid calls." Their entreaty worked. Today Webster says there is no official prohibition against parkour. Other schools seem caught between safety concerns and not wanting to stifle student enthusiasm. Last year, when a University of Washington administrator went outside to tell Cecka to stop climbing on her office building, she was impressed by his passion for the obscure sport and encouraged him to apply for a $4,500 leadership scholarship, which he is using to create a nonprofit to spread the word about parkour. As he quietly trains on campus, Cecka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Student Stuntmen | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...groaning cliché, but "Time will tell" is surprisingly useful here. The study suggests that time will change the Supreme Court even without new Justices. So if you don't like the current ideological tilt, just be patient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Drifters | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

Ronald Reagan's upbeat personality developed early in life as a way to both accept and transcend a beloved alcoholic father. But years of performing and public speaking molded it into a persona that helped win landslides and kept his enemies off balance. Reagan could go to Berlin and tell Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!" just months after negotiating earnestly with the Soviet leader at Reykjavík, all the while withholding concessions on the development of the Strategic Defense Initiative, the very thing Gorbachev most wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Acting Like a President | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...Like to See the Good Guys Win - Up to a Point America is a country caught between meritocracy and morality. We are raised on fairy tales and movies that tell us nice guys finish first. Then we grow up and go into a job market that tells us it is not just O.K. but also necessary to richly reward the best and cut the laggards, however kind or hardworking they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why American Idol Keeps Soaring | 4/4/2007 | See Source »

Fergusson wrote in an e-mailed statement, “As a college president, I can tell you that discretionary funds of this sort are rare indeed—and that they can be strategically important in an environment where every dollar is spoken...

Author: By David Jiang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Verba Fund Enriches HUL | 4/4/2007 | See Source »

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