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Throughout Jeremy's childhood, Gie-Ming would take him to the YMCA after he finished his homework. They would practice and play in pickup games. "Many Asian families focus so much on academics," says Gie-Ming. "But it felt so good to play with my kids. I enjoyed it so much." Jeremy won a state championship as a senior in high school, but he received no Division 1 scholarship offers (Ivy League schools cannot give athletic scholarships). Yes, he was scrawny, but don't doubt that a little racial profiling, intentional or otherwise, contributed to his underrecruitment...
...that bad, no matter what the government says about him,' " Callahan says with a laugh. To help his Mr. Baseball image, Callahan keeps several boxes of new baseballs (printed with U.S. and Nicaraguan flags) in his embassy vehicle so he can toss out a few to kids playing pickup games in roadside fields...
...year's, does not include any scheduled public appearances. Instead, the public will have to rely on the kind of chance encounters that made Obama as much a neighbor as a celebrity: taking in the Honolulu Zoo with his children, walking on the beach with his wife and playing pickup basketball with old friends. Sabina Yi, owner of Kokonuts Shave Ice & Snacks in Honolulu's Hawaii Kai, has a photograph on the wall of the day Obama stopped by last Christmas to buy a treat for his children. "We're all wishing that he'll stop by again," Yi says...
...Every company rests its business on a few pillars. For Toyota, one of the key pillars is quality," Cole says. "How you manage the issue becomes very critical." It certainly didn't help that the accelerator recall also follows by one day the recall of 100,000 Toyota-made pickup trucks because of rust problems. Toyota is rated the highest in dependability among all automakers and has won more quality awards than any other automaker. Its vehicles also routinely top Consumer Reports' recommendations list...
...prevailing tribal views on women. Knight's novel opens with a poem, which Poursalehi set to music and which has become an anthem of sorts for the scene: "Muhammed was a punk rocker/ You know he tore s___ up/ Muhammed was a punk rocker/ Rancid sticker on his pickup truck." For Knight, now a graduate student in Islamic studies at Harvard University, the richness and elasticity of Islam has allowed a Muslim punk scene to develop and now flourish. "The energy of punk is about tearing down," he says. "But I don't want to just be tearing something down...