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...playing inside, Kuld still believes his true strength is beach volleyball.“The indoor game has become very dependent on height,” the 6-foot-1 Kuld said. “The best teams and players are not only skilled but they’re huge. In beach volleyball you can get way with being shorter and still be great.”The Crimson players insist that Kuld’s play on the beach has had a positive impact on the team’s success. The versatile star has improved his ball control...
...long to merge skills from previous athletic endeavors into one relatively unknown to the community. “He was the first player to ever get recruited [from his high school’s lacrosse program],” Sue-Ellen Duboe says. “That was a huge deal. He was also the first All-American player in our school for 10 years, and he was the first player to make Team Illinois.”Realizing the potential behind what had been an unconventional backyard hobby, Duboe sought to continue pursuing his newfound passion into college?...
...that, in any election, the majority of people will vote along sectarian lines to elect leaders of their own community. It is then the task of these same leaders to reach a consensus amongst themselves over power-sharing and the division of government resources. The fact that Iraq possesses huge revenues from oil should, in ideal circumstances, make this process that much easier...
...being used up at 10 times the peacetime rate. They are not being replaced nearly as quickly. On the personnel side, the military has lowered standards for physical fitness and education; even felons have become soldiering material as the armed forces pursues basic recruiting targets. The Army is paying huge re-enlistment bonuses in an effort to retain captains, who are quitting at alarming rates. It will take decades of investment to rebuild our military strength to pre-war levels...
...Modesto became a bedroom community for the Bay area. But then the subprime mortgage crisis hit hard: in February alone, Stanislaus County had 1,630 foreclosure filings, third highest in the nation. The physical toll it is taking on this hub nestled amid the almond groves is staggering. Huge, dusty stretches of subdivision developments lay untouched or partially built as developers run out of money...