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...country," he said, just minutes after accepting his first-ever Olympic gold. "But I'm also happy for my family, my coach, my friends and even myself." Teammate Hiroyuki Tomita, who nailed a spectacular 9.850 high-bar routine to clinch Japan's hairbreadth victory was even more blunt: "People say there must have been lots of pressure, but I think there's less pressure today, because there's not so much national pride depending on each victory...
...heated primary campaign. But in an effort to bring new life to his White House bid, Kerry also incorporated new themes—including, early in his speech, a call to arms for the cause of women’s rights—and responded in unusually blunt fashion to criticisms of his policies and style that have accumulated over the course...
...among Lebanese to leave their country for anywhere in the West. After learning that I was born in Lebanon but live in Canada, the drivers inevitably ask me what I’m doing back here. “You’re stupid,” is the blunt response when I tell them I may want to move to Lebanon after graduation...
...There isn't a son in the world who hasn't had an issue with his father," John says. Barbiero observes, "John's dad was someone he was always trying to prove himself to." While John's mother struck Barbiero as a "terrific, warm person," he is blunt about Richard Kerry. "I didn't like his father," Barbiero says. "He was dismissive of John. We'd go out to dinner, and John would be saying something, and his father would cut him off. I didn't feel he gave John much respect." Richard Kerry was suave but not warm, articulate...
...army to speak of, the government is throwing al-Shahwani's agents straight into the trenches. Their prime targets are the global terrorists and foreign jihadis who take their cues from Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian acolyte of Osama bin Laden. The new government is blunt in its approach. "Be ruthless. Either they kill you or you kill them," National Security Adviser Muwaffak al-Rubaie tells TIME. "With them, there can be no mercy." Al-Rubaie thinks al-Zarqawi made a "fatal mistake" with the wave of bombings two weeks ago that killed more than 100 Iraqis...