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...deck of cards. "There's this trick where you throw a card up in the air when a fan is blowing and you try to catch it," Tomlinson, the San Diego Chargers running back, explains in his Texas drawl. The man is not fooling around. He does the trick twice a week during the off-season, snatching dozens of high-speed aces bouncing off the blades, in order to tune the quick reflexes a great running back requires...
...friends. Limiting some students’ access to their own House dining halls—even if it’s their own choice to do so—will significantly reduce this social dynamic of the dining hall. Students on a mixed meal plan will have to think twice about tapping their weekly allotment for any given meal. And failing to swipe in or leaving the dining hall with food in hand, rather than constituting minor misdemeanors, could quite literally come to be viewed as theft...
...Optimistic at first, Chayes joins forces with the family of future President Hamid Karzai to run an NGO dedicated not just to physical reconstruction, but to mending relations between Muslims and the West. "The window of opportunity seemed unparalleled," she writes. "Here was a Muslim country that had twice in two decades rid itself of tyranny thanks to U.S. assistance ... Afghanistan might be the place where some of the damage could be repaired." But with mounting frustration she chronicles the mistakes of U.S. officials who had no clear vision for the country once the Taliban were defeated. Promised reconstruction projects...
Romney needs to highlight his social-conservative credibility (pro-life, anti--gay marriage) while reminding voters he's a Republican who won twice in John Kerry and Ted Kennedy's home state--i.e., able to pull independents away from the Democrats...
...Church, directly across Lafayette Square from the White House. He took Communion with some of the 50 other worshippers and knelt in prayer. There was no sermon that morning--at least until Ford delivered one of his own. He went back to the Oval Office, practiced his speech aloud twice, moved to a smaller adjoining office and alerted congressional leaders of his plans. At 11:05, in a statement that invoked God's name six times, Ford told the nation he was pardoning Nixon. "The Constitution is the supreme law of our land, and it governs our actions as citizens...