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...most dominant athletes are more than just a lean body with great skills. Instead, they act as role models and provide leadership in addition to their prowess. In what may have been the toughest year to be a captain, saber fencer Tim Hagamen more than rose to the occasion to meet all the requirements. Despite losing his fellow captain in the middle of the season, the senior led the men’s fencing squad to its third straight Ivy League championship and a sixth-place finish at the NCAA Tournament and earned an individual national title in men?...
Maintaining his influence on global warming may mean swallowing the 4% pill--washed down, knowing Dingell, by a fountain of federal subsidies for the retooling of American auto plants. Some friends of the chairman believe that Dingell has chosen the toughest bill of his career to cap his historic tenure. If he survives this Congress and wins one more election, he will pass Mississippi's Jamie Whitten as the nation's longest-serving Congressman...
...Marines who died there must have been proud to do so for their country. "He looked at the Marines as being the best, and that's what he wanted to be--the best," says Marianne. "He knew it was the hardest boot camp. He knew it was the toughest training. That's what he wanted. He wanted to push himself...
...ranged from hard sciences to Roman architecture. (His mother says he asked for a copy of Moby Dick as a Christmas present in second grade.) In college he was as serious about conditioning his body as he was his mind. He played pickup basketball in some of L.A.'s toughest neighborhoods. Once, late at night, after drinking beer with Bell, Blue told Bell he was going for a run. He donned a flak jacket for added weight and ran the darkened L.A. streets alone for hours, finally returning to the house shortly before dawn...
...goalposts may be inevitable. Decreeing that all kids (except 1% with serious disabilities and an additional 2% with other issues) must be proficient by 2014 is a little like declaring that all the children are above average in the mythical town of Lake Wobegon. California has some of the toughest K-12 curriculum standards in the nation, and O'Connell despairs of hitting the 2014 goal. "Today we don't have any of our schools with 100% student proficiency, and I will predict that we won't by 2014," he says. "Right now about one-quarter of our kids have...