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...team was as young and inexperienced as it has been in years and went up against what may be the toughest Ivy League competition ever, yet it finished fourth at Heptagonals and on the verge of national recognition--its best season in years...
...Kelts was the toughest runner I have never seen," Hickey says. "He ran so damn hard in practice and in races that the rest of us couldn't help but run our skulls out. He was a great example and, all-around, he was the best captain I've ever...
Operation Overlord was the toughest of military propositions: an attack by sea against a fortified enemy defense line. The very thought gave Churchill nightmares. He told Eisenhower, "When I think of the beaches of Normandy choked with the flower of American and British youth, and when in my mind's eye I see the tides running red with their blood, I have my doubts. I have my doubts." The Prime Minister was both right and wrong: the scenes of death he envisioned occurred, but the Allies seized the beaches and held them...
Even after the technological problems are ironed out, legal impediments will remain. One of the toughest has to do with syndication rights. It's one thing to talk about making TV sitcoms like Murphy Brown and Seinfeld available to customers who missed them at their regular broadcast hours, but quite another to negotiate a deal with the Hollywood agents and unions that represent the shows' creators. "How are you going to compensate the actors, the directors, the grips?" asks Ratcliffe. "Lucille Ball still earns money for her shows, and she's been dead for years...
...community debates. As Hull says, "I expected the story would cause ripples in a small city like Omaha." But the ripples spread far beyond talk. The mayor of Omaha and the Governor of Nebraska called special meetings to address youth violence. And in November, Omaha passed one of the toughest gun- control laws in the U.S., making it illegal for anyone younger than 21 to carry a loaded handgun. For offenders, the new law carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 days in jail...