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The George Washington men are favored by 200 points and the women are favored by 300 points according to the Swimulator.

Santo Condorelli (above) raced at the Texas Senior Circuit meet #3 the weekend leading up to the U.S. National Championships.

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Don’t tell the folks of Grover’s Mill that Martians don’t exist. Grover’s Mill, a section of West Windsor, was ground zero for the fictional (we hope!) Martian attack dramatized by Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre on a Mischief Night broadcast of Oct. 30, 1938. Some thought a local water tower was a Martian spaceship. Alas, it was all just a radio show and a severe case of national hysteria. Van Nest Park at 218 Cranbury Road has a short, 50 yards or so, walk with plaques commemorat...

>> i wish i could figure out how david felt, always writing this these riddles. >> bully-cringe. >> explain -- there is a consistency that praises putin, never criticized him. positive about erdogan. maybe thats about his business interests in turkey. he praises duarte, maybe thats about his business interest in the philippines. hes -- he actually praised xi when he consolidated power in china in a way not seen there since mao. yet he constantly is attacking against canada, france, germany, grea...

>> people that cant read well, we tend to build a great sense of listening. we also tend to build a great sense of being able to deal and cope with failure. >> this is not something you would wish on anybody else? >> no, i would not. >> reporter: gladwell is fascinated with people who achieve success by forging their own path, perhaps because thats what hes done. hes a staff writer for "the new yorker" magazine, but he doesnt actually have an office. he writes in small cafes in new york and does...

David felt emboldened to try something outside the box. thats a pattern you see again and again with underdogs that because they cant do the thing they are required to do, they look for alternate routes. >> reporter: he wrote about the successful strategies of underdogs after meeting this man. what interested gladwell wasnt software but how he coached his 12-year-old daughters basketball team, seen here in white, even though he knew nothing about the game. growing up in india, did you play baske...

>> david felt that it was too much for lueene. >> she started complaining about the cleanup. >> well, it never was that way before, because she did not have to do all the cleaning up. everybody else pitched in. but he used that as a guise for it being too much for lueene because he did not want these people there. >> looking back, jaime says he should have seen what was happening. he was losing his wife. >> thats what i call master of manipulation. >> hes a master of manipulation. hes like a che...

Properties while david remained at the ranch with the wife lueene and the couples grandchildren. >> it was a very gradual thing that things began to change. because he became more in control and jaime was kind of just being less. >> pushed out, is that the way you saw it? >> and my husband and i, we were both aware of it. we talked about it between us. we didnt talk to jaime and lueene or anybody else. but we talked about it. this was something happening that we felt very sad to see happening. >...

People. and he -- that was just built if his dna from start to finish. >> as you know in his later years, broder was often derided as a defender of the washington establishment and out of touch. and people say he couldnt see the fact that politics was broken. >> he -- i dont think all that criticism was unfair. at the same time he liked politicians and so i dont think he really thought the system was broken. >> he liked politicianings and respected the good politicians and did not respect the ba...