Word: lunching
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...kids.” Every day at the Olympic Training Center, the players would wake up at seven, eat breakfast, and gear up for practice. After at least an hour of off-ice physical conditioning, they hit the ice for three hours of intense hockey before taking a quick lunch break followed by a reptition of the morning’s routine. Their nightlife consisted of watching game tapes as a team for hours a time. Often, watching a 20-minute period of a game would take one-and-a-half hours to get through.Such a rigorous schedule has forced...
Fletcher Maynard Academy Principal Robin Harris expressed positive sentiments about the evolution of the school lunch menu over the past few years...
Like a schoolyard bully short on cash, the Bush administration has decided to steal lunch money from the smart kids’ piggy banks. In the face of the burgeoning U.S. budget deficit and Republicans’ penchant for tax cuts, something had to give—and higher education did. Under the budget legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on Feb. 1, student loan programs face a net cut of approximately $12 billion, which will lead to a rise in interest rates to 6.8 percent for student loans and 8.5 percent for parent loans by this July...
...quite get your head - which is, in any event, likely to be fogged from the night before - around what you've heard or seen. (Did Brad Pitt really have jet-black hair and sideburns?) So on the last day of Davos I enjoy a little ritual. After lunch, I take myself to the very top of the mountain above the town and ski the long run all the way down into Klosters. Just above that picture-postcard Swiss village, I stop at a hillside inn, have a gluhwein, and try to make sense of what I've learned. So here...
...would-be candidates less than six months to recruit delegates and build a campaign team--one reason that pressure is already building for hopefuls to declare themselves. Former Justice Minister Martin Cauchon was among the first to sniff the winds: he called a prospective supporter (unsuccessfully) three times for lunch. Others, like former Newfoundland Premier Brian Tobin, powerful Toronto-area M.P.s Maurizio Bevilacqua and Joe Volpe and former hockey great Ken Dryden, are allowing speculation to float about their prospective candidacies. Still others are lurking on the sidelines, including former Harvard professor Michael Ignatieff, who, as a political novice...