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Winning is Sexy
John Niles

"Oohh, running, THAT’s hard!” Recently, this sarcastic comment echoed through the senior fishbowl.  There is a simple two-word response to that: Hell, yeah.  In cross-country, athletics in its purest form, participants compete against each other over a grueling, three-mile racecourse.  Training requires athletes to push themselves to—and sometimes beyond—their physical and mental limits almost every day.
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Horoscopes
Matthew Oberhardt

Methods of ascertaining predictions have improved over the years.  With the partial uncovering of the Human Genome, these predictions can be fine tuned to the human species.  Bringing into account factors both of broad (a-type) predictions and specific (b-type) predictions, a new standard in astrology has emerged that can correct predictions to the greatest possible accuracy for errs in human behavioral factors.  This new process, called Split Factoring, has revolutionized the world of astrology.
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Emotional Health:
Does Anyone Need it?
Melanie Kolkin

During an assembly the first week of school Mr. Burdick commented that “[the students] cannot have a healthy body with out having first a healthy mind.”  This year, in concordance with the Head of Upper School's comment, the requirements for the Emotional Health have been changed. 
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From Fallen Heights: Olympics Down Under
Melih Onvural

With a history as ancient as Greece, the Olympics are a historical competition for which wars were ceased and differences laid aside. The best gathered to compete--today they are much the same but much altered as well in an age where the gods for certain are not the praised.

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