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...spectacle: the miniature U.S. flags, the festooned Uncle Sams, the hot dogs and watermelons, the magnificent fireworks. Sitting in the Luxembourg garden (possibly the most beautiful place in the world) while reading Proust with a cheap but delicious bottle of Bordeaux, glancing up occasionally at kids kicking a soccer ball or the many menageries of pretty French girls, one wouldn’t even know the U.S. existed. Except for a group of picknickers munching on McDonalds...
...Kevin Durant: It's hard to say right now, but if I would pick anything, I would say I can shoot the ball, and score in many different ways. I can score posting up, going to the basket, or shooting the three. If I have a wide-open shot, I'm probably going...
...important Neutra house was pulled down almost overnight. Then there's Paul Rudolph. For decades he was famous for his intricately configured offices and houses, with their long cantilevers and thrusting volumes. But lately almost anything with his name attached has become a state-of-the-art wrecking-ball magnet. In January a sizable Rudolph house in Connecticut went down. A few weeks ago, a Rudolph house in Rhode Island met the same fate...
...Soon after arriving in Iraq, Petraeus invented a formulation that has since become a cliché: the disparity between the two "clocks" - Washington and Baghdad time - for ending the war. The Washington clock is "late fourth quarter, we're down a touchdown, and the other team has the ball," a senior Administration official told me. Petraeus knows that the American public is tired of the war - tired of not winning it, at least - and that a significant chunk of the Republicans in Congress may be about to abandon President Bush, as the respected Senator Richard Lugar did on June...
...seen—the caliber of the opposition is truly world class, featuring several players who have played significant minutes in either Copa Libertadores (The South American Club Championship) or in UEFA Champions League. Marcelo, a member of the Seleção of Brazil, plays his club ball at Real Madrid, the current champion of the Spanish Primera division...