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...only 16 Olympic medals up until this year's Games? Is another country better than ours because it dedicates a whole group of young people to sports at a tender age? Is that the true Olympic spirit? We have seen youngsters whose lives are manipulated and controlled with one aim: to win at any cost. Our athletes have proved they have the Olympic spirit. I wish Perry had investigated how government officials and bureaucracy have marred the true spirit of Indian sports. Neeta Kolhatkar Bombay...
...stylish spectacles, crams too much onto the screen and tends to lack depth. She claims not to care: "My feeling is that I do what I do, then I offer it to the world. I hope people will be affected by it, watch it and are impressed. I aim to put bums on seats. But that's not to say that I'm confident or unconfident. I don't think about the fruits of my actions. I just do the work...
...ayatullahs like Sistani. For radicals who want to see religious power in the hands of an ethnic Arab, al-Sadr has the right pedigree. Soon he was recruiting Shi'ites into an armed militia, the Mahdi Army, named for the messiah the Shi'ites await. Their stated aim was to drive foreign infidels from the holy cities. But al-Sadr also wanted to deter aggressive Sunni militants from leaving Shi'ites out in the cold and to counter the militias belonging to other Shi'ite pretenders to power. "The Mahdi Army," says Sheik Qais Hadi al-Kazali, a spokesman...
...what trophy hunters prize, since a male's mane reaches its full glory after age 4. Lions 5 years or older can be identified by their noses, which are at least 50% black. Already the Tanzanian Wildlife Division and some professional hunters are advising clients to take aim at the older lions...
LESSON "If we approach others with an aim to change them rather than an aim to know them, to love them and to exemplify a better life for them, we make ourselves ugly with arrogance in the process." -christianitytoday.com...