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...national hero, Karelin enjoys advantages unknown to other athletes. "There's not another wrestler in the world who travels with a helicopter and a massager and two or three doctors and coaches," declares Ghaffari, who says he and Karelin regard each other with mutual respect. Small wonder that when Russian President Vladimir Putin's Unity Party needed a boost last year, it picked Karelin to run for a legislative seat. Today the wrestler denies rumors that he wants to be President. "It's a totally different level of responsibility," he says, "and I am not ready for it." Just running...
...while I might personally argue against abortion, as a lawmaker I cannot impose my personal judgment on others." In the end, does it make any difference what the man believes? Lieberman suggests not. "This is really less a matter of programs or legislation than it is of giving respect to the constructive role that faith can play," he said last week. After a decade in which Christian conservatives have tied their faith to policies from abortion to taxes to school reform, Lieberman's stance may seem refreshing. But it may have dangers...
...pressure his sport can throw at him. This is wrong. There is something singularly exciting and terrifying about the Olympics, where even in finals, says Sutton, "there'll be five guys who handle the pressure and three who don't." Says Armstrong: "We're not paying the world enough respect. The Olympic Games are about passion; they're not always about times...
...knows her sport is a little weird. "It looks funny, it feels funny, and it wasn't an Olympic sport when I started doing it," she says. Which was probably at 13 months. She adds, however, "If we stop comparing it with other sports and stop feeling inadequate, respect will come naturally." The first step in ending the comparison would be to take it out of the Olympics...
Homeschooling's first wave of graduates is coming of age. And homeschooling has earned not only a college of its own but also respect from traditional schools, including elite institutions. More than 1 million students are being schooled at home, and their ranks are growing about 15% a year, according to the U.S. Department of Education. And though they still account for only a small fraction of the applicant pool at most colleges, homeschoolers are winning over admissions officers...