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...Such blunt criticism would have been bad news for Jackson under any circumstances. But the fact that Walker is also chairman of the board of Sharpton's organization, the National Action Network, based in Harlem, made it even worse. Some Jackson allies see Walker's attack as the first step in an effort by Sharpton to knock Jackson off his perch...
...their imposing center, the Shanghai Sharks wanted an estimated 30% of Yao's salary and a good chunk of his endorsements, which could eventually reach $100 million over four years. No deal was reached. Now, Yao will languish another year in the Chinese basketball league, where middling competition could blunt his budding talents. Says a source close to the failed talks: "Greed killed Yao's hopes...
...President and Vice President just have different styles," concedes one senior administration official, using phrasing that passes for high insubordination in the Bush White House. But the official was right. Even though Bush and Cheney are in complete agreement on the policies, the difference in tone between Cheney's blunt speech and Bush's conciliatory one last week couldn't have been more stark...
Cynara's voice and character are, in fits and starts, inspired and inspiring. Newly emancipated and literate, she acquires, by virtue of what she calls her "crazy quilt" education, an arresting fictional presence. She can be blunt, circa the 1870s--"There is a lot of Indian in her nigger"--and sometimes poetic: "Mothers grow flaccid, rich in babylove, each baby taking some of the mother's beauty as if the baby knows it needs to protect its babyself by making Mama less kiss-daddy pretty." Why shouldn't the loyal slaves enshrined in the magnolia myth of GWTW, novel...
...Summitt, of course, is the domineering and absurdly successful coach of the University of Tennessee women's basketball team, one of the best the game has ever seen. She is a blunt-spoken, hypercompetitive perfectionist. If her charges don't perform, they're gone. What does she know about airplanes? Not much besides nearly having a baby in one, at altitude, when she ignored serious labor pains and went on a recruiting trip. But Summitt would eat a swaggering airline CEO for breakfast (along with her usual nails...