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...freshmen] rowed with poise,” Manning said. “When you’re behind, you can’t see the opposition, you have to row blind. That takes a lot of courage...
NEWMAN: It was simply the recognition of unacceptable neglect. [Director] George Roy Hill said, "Luck is an art. People watch luck go by them, and they're so blind they never reach out and grab it." You could say the same thing about grief or loss. Something runs by you that you should recognize. You watch it go by, and you say it'll turn out all right. And then something happens, and it doesn't turn out all right at all. And you look back at all the signals you should have seen along the way. But--whoosh--like...
That being said, we must never forget exactly who John Gotti was. His Alger-esque rise to fame and fortune shouldn’t blind us to the reality that the Dapper Don was a really just a depraved gangster. He may have been New York’s favorite criminal, but he is definitely not a New York hero...
...menu of likely successors, if chosen democratically, is hardly palatable to Washington. The most popular current Palestinian leaders, after Arafat, are Marwan Barghouti, the West Bank Fatah chief currently in an Israeli prison for his role in directing the Tanzim militias in this intifada, and Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the blind spiritual leader of Hamas. The moderate negotiators from Arafat's inner circle such as Mahmoud Abbas (a.k.a. Abu Mazen) and Ahmed Qurei (a.k.a. Abu Ala) are aging and in ill health, and their intimate involvement in the failed Oslo process has made them magnets for considerable Palestinian rage...
...nothing else, I am indebted to the campaign. If it weren’t for the over-the-top chanting, postering, and that silly first-year who hadn’t the slightest clue what he was doing, I may still have been living the Harvard lie of blind liberalism without prudent thought. I had to be convinced that I didn’t believe in what they were doing, and they themselves were the catalyst in helping me see the light. I may not have a core of unadulterated conservatism, but thank God I’ve dropped...