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...female, it's not about strength - it's a mental and strategy game. Women have not always been allowed to compete with the men. There were some rules about sexual privacy - that toilet issue held women back a number of years. They weren't able to fish. That got thrown out, and a number of ladies started competing. They certainly could compete with all the guys. It's just that a lady has never qualified for this event. They decided to open up it up to one position from the Women's Bassmaster Tour, which has been going...
...from three-point range alone.But not all the blame rests on Harvard’s thinly-spread defensive efforts—Cornell’s shooting was on. The Big Red boasted a 61.9% field-goal percentage throughout the game.OFF THE BENCHHarvard’s all freshmen bench was thrown into the fire against the Big Red. Oliver McNally, Peter Boehm, and Max Kenyi battled on the court for 27, 23 and 25 minutes, respectively—each more than some of the Crimson’s starters. Among the three, Kenyi experienced the most offensive success by going...
...Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. It’s an underachieving school even by the standards of where Teach for America places its members. We take students who weren’t able to pass out of eighth grade before they became too old to start high school. Some have been thrown out of two or three middle schools, and many served time in juvenile detention for a colorful range of offenses. Others simply lost a year as orphans of the storm, Katrina kids mishandled by overwhelmed officials in Houston, Atlanta, or Arkansas who fell behind and never caught up. They?...
Houston, Whitney • highly-touted comeback by at a Grammy-eve party is instantly thrown into question after odd appearance at Grammy Awards...
...changing the unproductive partisan habits," Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri Twittered within minutes of the announcement. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, who has logged a decade as a political knife fighter, issued sharp words through a press release, suggesting that it was the Senator himself who had thrown his hat into the ring in the first place. "Senator Gregg reached out to the President," Gibbs noted, and was "very clear" that he would "support, embrace and move forward with the President's agenda." Then Gibbs twisted the rhetorical blade. "We regret that he had a change of heart...