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...Every day more and more boys are coming out," says Young says. "People believe that boxing is a way to gain. Because of Samuel Peter, people know this is another avenue to succeed in life." Most of the aspirants train in the mornings and evenings, then spend the days searching for menial odd jobs. Among the hopefuls is Mark Anthony Ennenim, 26, a wiry fighter whose long dreadlocks earned him the nickname Rasta. Ennenim sleeps on a thin prayer mat in a small hallway above the gym, where he's been training for two years...
...impossible not to be saddened by Thurston Clarke's look at Robert F. Kennedy's 82-day quest for the White House. Even if THE LAST CAMPAIGN (Henry Holt; 321 pages) did not begin with a moving account of Kennedy's funeral train (which it does), the story's end is already well known...
...this country while looking for someplace else. You learned about the American Revolution, whose leaders surprised even themselves with what they were prepared to risk for their freedom. You devoured Harry Potter, which was written by a woman who wanted to write serious novels until a wizard entered her train compartment and made her write wonderful ones instead. You owe the existence of the Post-it notes in your binder to the 3M researcher who tried to find a stronger glue and changed the world by failing: he found a weaker one instead...
...Since a number of Harvard students will be making decisions impacting climate change and other current concerns, Harris said, it is important for Gen Ed to “train intelligent laypeople” who would understand the basics of such matters...
...offer to mobilize her key constituencies - like women and Latinos - for Obama in a series of joint rallies. It seemed obvious that if she pressed her unlikely case for the vice presidency too aggressively, Obama would have to deny it or risk seeming weak and unpresidential. Given the freight train of personal baggage and supertanker-size egos the Clintons transport, it would probably be best for her not to press...