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...self-improvement. True traceurs don't smoke (because it would hurt their endurance) or run under the influence (because it would hurt their balance and agility). "The problem is that people see all these videos of high-level stuff, so they go home, jump off their roof and wonder why they blow out their knees," says Tyson Cecka, 20, a sophomore at the University of Washington who just spent a week in Los Angeles doing parkour for a sneaker commercial. "They don't understand that we're training thousands of times on the ground, all these different vaults, all this...
...sense, it was familiar ground for Kennedy, whose spot near the court's ideological center often makes his vote determinative in tight cases. But the decision's high-profile rebuke to the Bush Administration makes you wonder whether Kennedy is shifting left...
...outdated monster of the E.U., which is stripping away 1,000 years of Britain's history and the very foundation of all our ancient freedoms, raises my worst fears about who controls TIME these days. My wife's comment was, "Well, they are Americans." Does this, I wonder, say it all? Michael A. Clark, BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND...
...that same promotional video, residents solemnly profess the sacrifices they would make for Mather House—why such sacrifices would ever be needed, one is left wonder. One resident sheds his dignity by sticking a finger in his nostril, another promises to christen a future child in the House’s honor, and one courageous soul is willing even to die for Mather...
...last great performance - certainly her most startling and touching - was the Osborne interview for TCM. I'm told that the show, which lasts 56 mins. including clips, took four days to shoot because Betty's anxieties kept getting in the way of her showmanship. But still she's a wonder: her vitality undiminshed, she jumps up and down in her chair, rising with some memories, falling back crushed with others. At one point she gets up and hugs the genial Osborne in thanks for his kindness...