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...quiz bowl tournament, and the ‘Jeopardy!’ tryouts were there,” she said. “It was kind of spontaneous—everyone on my team tried out.” After passing the first phase of the process, a written test, Grand then took part in a mock run-through of the game show. Last month, Grand found out she’d made the final cut. And while host Alex Trebek often stumps even the sharpest of contestants, Grand said she has not done much to tune...
...single election may not be the fairest test. But as New York, Boston and several other cities consider allowing noncitizens to vote, the benefits of doing so are murky. Immigrant-rights advocates insist that giving newcomers a voice in local government integrates them quickly into their communities--and encourages them to become citizens. Opponents say that's backward: voting means little to an immigrant who hasn't earned citizenship. It's a divisive debate, and in a nation grown chilly toward immigrants, supporters of noncitizen voting have a tough case to make...
...spotlight but never of football's simple joys. Losing well was a knack he never mastered, and he hated himself when he played poorly. At those times, or when injury stopped him surfing for a while, he could sulk with the best of them. Life after football will test him. He is gone before he was ready, leaving behind a game that will be the lesser for his absence...
Sara’s arrival at Harvard might seem like a foregone conclusion in hindsight, but had the freshman decided to test her skills outside the Ivy League, she would not have been the first. The Floods’ other sibling, Ashley, is currently a junior lacrosse player at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania...
...course, Wen would never go to Yasukuni, because China sees the shrine as a symbol of unrepentant Japanese imperialism. Beijing has made Yasukuni a litmus test - it was only when new Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe became purposefully vague on visiting the shrine that icy Sino-Japanese relations began to thaw. Yushukan perpetuates the lie that the war was unavoidable, and that the 5,843 mostly young men who lost their lives as kamikazes died for a transcendent cause, died to save Japan. The museum is a celebration of wasted lives...