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With both Dartmouth and St. Lawrence losing their semifinal games, the absence of each team’s Canadian National Team members—Gillian Apps and Cherie Potter for the Big Green and Gina Kingsbury for the Saints—inevitably came up as a topic of discussion...
...Bush's inner circle who is not afraid to bring the President bad news or tell him he's wrong. Before she left Washington, it often fell to Hughes to charge "into the propeller," as media adviser Mark McKinnon describes the experience of confronting Bush with an unpleasant topic. That is what some Republicans worry has been lacking since Hughes left Bush's side. "This wouldn't be happening if Karen were here," a top G.O.P. adviser to the White House groaned during last year's flap over Bush's flight-suited landing on an aircraft carrier to declare...
...first potential trap for ARod is his relationship with Jeter, with whom he'll have to share attention, already Topic A among New York City's sports press. The two have known each other since their teens, but their relationship was strained after an Esquire story in which A-Rod said that, unlike him, Jeter didn't have to carry the burden of being the toughest out in his lineup. Jeter says that the two are friends and that, freed from the public, A-Rod is less uptight. "He fooled you with that one. He's not all that serious...
...mood, tone and topic of discussion for each cafe vary greatly, depending on the participants. Typically, the topic is decided by group vote, and anyone can suggest an idea. At El Diablo, the mostly middle-aged crowd (ages 25 to 66), clad in earth tones and comfortable shoes, settled on a tough one: Do nation-states with greater power have a greater responsibility to act ethically? "Is any act that a nation makes in its own self-interest ever moral?" asked Matt Waller, 40, a technical writer. "I say no." "Well, what's the nature of self-interest?" retorts housepainter...
Though he chooses his words carefully - and advises Gould to do the same - Nelms seems to regard a lot of what passes for state-of-the art training as outmoded, with an overemphasis on quantity. His own views on this topic aren't easy to grasp. (Both he and Gould use terms - "functional equilibrium," "sensory integration," "chemical energy system" - that don't cast much light.) But for simplicity's sake they might be boiled down to the idea that gifted swimmers know instinctively how to move in water and a lot of instruction only interferes with the process...