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...physical and mental well-being of the players are important, and the league should strive within reason to make its product safer. But in the end, the gridiron can never be kind to the body. Professional sports are crucially different from construction or deap-sea fishing, both of which deal with worksite injuries as a necessary evil. The goal and practice of these latter jobs is not to be harmed, whereas serious contact is a part of football’s standard operating procedure...
...foundation—but the former diverges from the latter in one critical way: the relationship to the floor. Ballet dancers stay lifted up off the floor, making minimal contact with it and absorbing any impact into the muscles so the moves remain graceful and quiet. Ballroom dancers strive for the exact opposite: they push their weight down into their muscles and make contact with the floor. Still, both depend on graceful elevated arms for the entirety of the dance, which means strong shoulder muscles are essential...
...She’s definitely her own harshest critic, but in a way that really makes her strive for excellence,” Roberts said. “She’s never satisfied with her own performance—she’s always looking for ways to get better…I can’t wait to see how she performs in the last [three] weekends of Ivy play...
...suffering in the world during the course of our lifetimes—and in this vein it would be hypocritical not to try and alleviate suffering in our college community during the course of our four years here. Even in the midst of great economic trials, we must all strive to move society closer to a day when the inscription on the Common memorial can be taken in truth, and people will never again starve, suffer, or want in a world of plenty...
...earlier version of the April 6 news article "New Cabot Masters Strive to Motivate" incorrectly stated that Rakesh Khurana earned a Ph.D. in sociology. In fact, he received his Ph.D. in organizational behavior...