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WHILE these stories certainly reveal a great deal about America and the people who live here, they do start to sound a little bit corny after a while. (If you read More Like Us in a very still room, you can hear "God Bless America" playing softly in the background.) Still, the American Dream is a hard thing to write about without doing too much flag-waving, and Fallows manages to survive with some degree of objective credibility when he writes about these people who have made the American Dream come true for them...
...Chang fled China for Taiwan in 1948, but those newspapers still publishing in China claimed the new champion nonetheless. In his victory speech, Michael also embraced them. "God bless everyone," he said in summation, "especially the people of China...
WEST CHESTER, Pa.--It's the equivalent of football's Hail Mary. Lacrosse does not bless it with a name. It's a pass, a catch and a goal...
...turn the island of Samar into "a howling wilderness." Samar has never recovered. Forty-one years later, Filipinos were risking savage Japanese reprisals to feed American prisoners of war marching in the notorious Bataan Death March. At war's end, Filipinos hailed the Yanks with a band playing God Bless America...
...Bank, followed by negotiations between those elected representatives and Israel. He wants to buy time by avoiding the question of whether Israeli withdrawal from -- and Arab sovereignty over -- the West Bank might someday be on the agenda of those negotiations. The Bush Administration will probably not insist that he bless the idea of territorial compromise in advance, but as his part of the bargain he had better not rule it out forever. That would probably be as much flexibility as the U.S. or the Arabs are likely to get out of this Israeli leader. But it might be enough...