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...popular press. She had to wait until the Games' second week before taking her first medal, a gold in the 1,500 m. In the first week she came in a disappointing fourth in the 3,000 m and fifth in the 1,000 m behind fellow Germans like bitter rival Claudia Pechstein and teammate Sabine Voel-ker, a triple medal winner...
Terrorism is the bitter howl of the victimized. For a short course on why so many Muslims feel that rage, Bernard Lewis is the man. He has been going over this ground since he coined the phrase "clash of civilizations" back in 1990. What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response (Oxford University Press; 180 pages; $23) doesn't directly address terrorism's latest face, as it was written before 9/11. But for newcomers to the subject, Lewis' brisk explication of the tense dynamic between Islam and the West offers a historical case for what he calls the Muslim...
...arrived at British Airways just before the airline announced its first annual loss since privatization. A dedicated cricketer, Eddington reached a sort of détente with bitter B.A. rival Richard Branson of Virgin Atlantic by joining the Virgin side for a match in Oxfordshire. (They won.) To claw back to profitability, he sold off no-frills subsidiary Go for a nice profit, and reduced the airline's overall capacity while offering more perks to high-margin, business-class flyers, most notably on the vital U.S.-bound routes...
...looking for Mr. Nasty”) and, of course, the fetish person (“looking for a petite Inuit who likes to suck toes”). If I had a magic wand I’d love to make some of those ads tell the bitter truth...
Running on Valentine’s Day is a columnist’s worst nightmare. Undoubtedly, the majority of my readers have temporarily morphed into bitter, lonely grouses, endlessly bemoaning their solitary existences, while the rest are frantically searching for that perfect gift after having forgotten Valentine’s Day for the third year in a row—hardly a columnist’s dream audience...