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...Paul wasn't scared of a fight, but he also wasn't scared of a friend," says conservative Republican Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas. After heated debates with John McCain on the Senate floor, Wellstone, a former college wrestler who still holds the Capitol Police gym record for pushups and pull-ups, would grab McCain in the cloakroom in a mock wrestling hold. And when one of his amendments was inevitably defeated by a lopsided vote, Wellstone would walk over to the opposing Senator who had defeated him, slap him on the back and joke, "You were lucky this time...
...crowd loves it. By the time Aa Gym ("elder brother" Gym), finishes his hour-long sermon with a plangent Islamic hymn, scores of women and men are openly weeping, and the roar of applause continues long after the TV cameras have been switched off. When he plunges into a crowd after a performance, there are always eager hands thrust out reaching for him, some fans even bowing down and kissing the preacher's hand, whispering a name to be remembered in his prayers. And always there are scores of squealing teenage girls hovering on the sidelines...
...Chen, however, frets that her image doesn't yet reach the high standard set for public figures. She hesitates to join hip-hop classes at the gym now, admitting that "it'd be embarrassing to go in and be the worst person in the class, especially when people expect me to be good." Success hasn't gone to her head. Hanging out with Chen is like spending time with an unprepossessing college girl, one with the usual enthusiasm for gossip, shopping, boys and boogie. "Even though I studied hard and took on summer internships, people always thought...
...Paul wasn't scared of a fight, but he also wasn't scared of a friend," says conservative Republican Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas. After heated debates with John McCain on the Senate floor, Wellstone, a former college wrestler who still holds the Capitol Police gym record for pushups and pull-ups, would grab McCain in the cloakroom in a mock wrestling hold. And when one of his amendments was inevitably defeated by a lopsided vote, Wellstone would walk over to the opposing Senator who had defeated him, slap him on the back and joke, "You were lucky this time...
Cadet Bartch tells a story about working out in the gym at the base where her family lives. A newly-enlisted man, probably about 18 or 19, was working out next to her. She says a TV news segment came on about troops deployed to Afghanistan and the new enlistee broke down and cried...