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Kristi: A solid build and medium height make me a perfect base, according to the coach. That means I have one of the flyer’s feet in my hands, legs outspread for balance and support. We count off, with specific motions happening on specific beats. And all of a sudden I have a girl’s life literally in my hands. She’s smiling—I really don’t know why. I’m scared just looking at her. I hope she doesn’t have vertigo...
...then, on the eerie afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001, Bush's counselor Karen Hughes appeared at FBI headquarters--the President had just touched down at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska--and announced that "your Federal Government continues to function effectively." The pronoun was almost as astonishing as the sentiment, but the moment of common purpose seems to have passed. The war is over, sort of, an election looms, and the President has once again orphaned the government--it's not ours anymore, and certainly not his. Bush, who seemed so focused when it came to kicking out Saddam...
When Alan L. Lefkowitz ’53 arrived at his Navy base soon after graduation, instead of the hearty welcome he expected, he says his fellow officers eyed him suspiciously—thinking that because he hailed from Cambridge he must have communist ties...
...then, on the eerie afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001, Bush's counselor Karen Hughes appeared at FBI headquarters - the President had just touched down at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska - and announced that "your Federal Government continues to function effectively." The pronoun was almost as astonishing as the sentiment, but the moment of common purpose seems to have passed. The war is over, sort of, an election looms, and the President has once again orphaned the government - it's not ours anymore, and certainly not his. Bush, who seemed so focused when it came to kicking out Saddam...
...Israel will expect Mahmoud Abbas to begin delivering, and Sharon has plenty of reason to doubt whether the Palestinian Authority will come through. Sharon is signaling his political base that signing on to the roadmap, in his mind, creates no obligations for Israel in terms of freezing or restricting settlement activity in the occupied territories. In Sharon's reading, no substantial steps are required of Israel until the Palestinian Authority cracks down on the organizations that send suicide terrorists into Israeli cities and mount attacks on Israeli soldiers and settlers in the West Bank and Gaza. And last week...