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Barack Obama grew up long after the 1950s air-raid drills that sent students scurrying under their desks, but the mushroom cloud was never far from his imagination. He wrote his senior thesis on nuclear arms reduction and quoted reggae star Peter Tosh in an essay about the "flowering of the nuclear Freeze movement" for a student magazine. Now that onetime activist possesses the power to summon the world. At the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, he gathered representatives of 47 nations (including 38 heads of state) for the largest diplomatic event convened by a U.S. President since 1945. Obama...
...04—We strike up conversation with the future star of “Jersey Shore—Masshole Edition” (he has already filmed his audition tape)! He tells us about his business plans, and we are 97 percent sure we are talking to the next Situation. When asked if he is gay, he responds, “I am with Jesus.” He lets us feel his muscles...
Friends describe Janie as an incredibly focused individual, an academic powerhouse, and a “beast” in the athletic arena. In high school, she was a star student-athlete and a nationally ranked swimmer. In college, she has continued to swim for Harvard while rowing for the Radcliffe lightweight crew team...
...auxiliary factors on one side can overcome an immense collection of pure talent on the other. Nevertheless, this doesn’t stop monied teams in professional sports leagues around the world, from Real Madrid to the Yankees, from making more of an effort to recruit and satisfy expensive star athletes instead of focusing on more foundational efforts. The failures of these efforts are often blamed on the once-touted athletes themselves, but instead, the overall strategy should be questioned. The “cost of winning” is a facetious phrase; seeing the success of a sports team...
...perhaps a marquee player like LeBron James is not the sole answer to their problems, just as Cristiano Ronaldo is not a panacea for Real Madrid’s issues. A sports team is, after all, a team, and to pin championship hopes on the individual efforts of star players is a characteristic, easy, and frustrating mistake...