Word: models
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...maybe they do. They think image is all, and who is to say they're not right in giving their all to maximize the potential of their clients' image? "Stylistically, I think there's a mistake being made here," says Leigh Steinberg, who was the real-life model for the fictional Jerry Maguire and who represents no athlete yet mentioned. "There's an insensitivity on the part of Woods and the Williams sisters and Rodriguez in the way they're floating these large amounts of money, a 'Let them eat cake' aspect to a family [with an] income...
...picked last for kickball, a relaxed PE class is an oxymoron. Their children, though, are beginning to benefit from a "New PE" movement that is taking hold in hundreds of school districts across the country. Naperville, which has been cited by the Centers for Disease Control, is a national model. Unlike the old, often dreaded gym class, with its focus on team sports, New PE stresses lifetime fitness. "The old model attended to skills many kids won't be using as adults--and it has left many on the sidelines," says Phil Lawler, founder of the Naperville program...
...spreads, more are sharing that view. Tim McCord, a once traditional PE teacher from rural Titusville, Penn., runs a two-year-old program based on Lawler's model--and on a budget of just $1,000 a year. Setting a much needed national example, the decidedly working-class district upped the PE requirement for high schoolers to a daily 42 minutes starting next year. The CDC's Wechsler advises school boards to re-evaluate their priorities. "You might argue that you can skip algebra and do O.K.," he says. "But learning about how to stay healthy could save your life...
...hands of Gilbert and Sullivan-then make your way to the Agassiz Theater for the Gilbert and Sullivan Players' latest production: The Pirates of Penzance. Perhaps the most famous operetta of all time, Pirates has it all-swash bucklers, police, pretty maidens and, of course, the very model of a modern major general. Tickets are going fast, so hurry soon to Radcliffe Yard...
...That formula is not the model for what the U.S. Supreme Court will probably do about Florida. They will probably look at this in the narrowest way possible, despite the broad implications of what they do. But that might be the way for a broader solution...