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...Rowing legend Jim Dietz once said, “In rowing, as in life, there are competitors and there are racers. The competitor works hard and rows to his limit. The racer does not think of limits, only the race...
...LEGEND AND LEGACY
...legendary family stories told me by my maternal grandfather about his childhood in northern Maine, which was impoverished. His father abandoned his family when my grandfather was 12 because he had epilepsy and his wife was going to have him admitted to an asylum. That was a formative family legend, but I could never get my grandfather to elaborate on it—I don’t know if it was painful or just generational to only talk about. Just being interested in my family made [these legends] irresistible to me. Just describing the facts as I knew them...
...before recess, during which he accused Dems of "fanning the flames" by trying to use the threats as a "political weapon." And certainly Democrats haven't been shy about raising funds from the other side's ugly moments, like when Tea Party protesters hurled racial epithets against civil-rights legend Representative John Lewis, spat at other African-American members and called Representative Barney Frank, one of a handful of openly gay Congressmen, a "f_____." "Members have had death threats," read a fundraising missive from Mitch Stewart, the head of Organizing for America, an offshoot of President Obama's campaign website...
After he asked a few questions about the band, the woman finally introduced herself. Emerson then realized that he had been speaking with Rosanne Cash, the song writer and daughter of country music legend Johnny Cash...