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...critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again...who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly...
...just the latest and most desperate example of baseball’s free market run amok. Teams are all too willing to turn out their pockets thanks to power-agents like Boras, whose whole job is to drive a wedge between competing teams and then exploit their blood feud. A plague on both their houses...
...there have recently been some signs that Saudi Arabia and the U.S. may not see eye to eye on how to stabilize the region. There has been growing speculation that King Abdullah will soon accede to pleas from leaders of Sunni tribes in Iraq - some of whom have blood ties with members of the Saudi leadership - for money for arms and armor for their own militias, especially if the U.S. were to begin to withdraw and the country fall further into chaos. And though the Bush Administration has taken issue with a recent New York Times report that King Abdullah...
...abrupt exit. According to sources close to the family who spoke to TIME, Turki had grown fed up and "angry" that Bandar was still trying to act as Saudi Arabia's point man in dealing directly with President Bush and Vice President Cheney. More general reports of bad blood between the two Saudi princes have also fed rumors that Bandar, also the King's nephew, is positioning himself to replace Turki's brother Faisal as foreign minister. Turki has also been rumored as likely to succeed his brother, but some Saudi watchers say that, at least for now, the King...
...Means? Stevens found no ties between Henri Paul, the driver of the car who lost control, and French or British intelligence. And he said there was no doubt that Paul's blood had at least twice the alcohol level permitted to British drivers. He was also driving at 61-63 miles per hour, twice the speed limit in the tunnel where the car crashed...