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...Sports remain, particularly for American males, our dominant social metaphor. Our lives are guided, more than we dare admit, by the hope of winning, the fear of losing and the belief that we everywhere compete on level playing fields - even though the media almost daily instructs us that this is pure fantasy. That's why the doping scandals so outrage us and the reports of rapacious behavior by athletes so dismay us. We have a primitive need for tales about the walk-on who makes the team, the aging jock who summons the idealistic spirit of boyhood and wins...
...must admit, I was worried how Yuan would react to a phone call from TIME. I wondered if she would blame the international media for publicizing the forcible family-planning campaign, which is perhaps what prompted Linyi officials to take out their anger on her husband. That Chen had been detained just hours after talking to me made me even more queasy. But Yuan brightened when she heard it was TIME on the line. She knew about the TIME 100, of course. And she had told another one of Chen's lawyers that she never imagined that she would...
...groups are almost certainly right, said Victor Romero, associate dean of Penn State's Dickinson School of Law. While the Supreme Court hasn't spoken specifically about exactly this kind of local ordinance, it has long made clear that the federal government has the specific and exclusive right to admit or exclude any foreigners and regulate the terms of their stay in the United States. "Clearly this is the prerogative of the federal government... clearly [the Hazleton ordinance] is unconstitutional," Romero said...
...smashed. It makes me sad. It's because Italians don't care. I think very soon we'll have to decide whether we want to keep our Venetian, carnivalesque fantasy, or maybe make some sacrifice." For now, Severgnini's contribution is to keep writing, the one thing he'll admit to doing well. "The only thing I could do since I was a child was write. During my military service, I created a lot of couples - I was a good love-letter writer." Now, instead of matchmaking, he maintains "Italians," the daily newspaper Corriere della Serra's popular online column...
...What about: never admit that you've slept with more than five guys...