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...prodded in the other direction a little, to be forced to realize how much of the world happens to us, instead of the other way around. I only hope that in the home I build for myself in the next few years, I learn to be brave in situations I cannot control, and that I endure the hives of life with grace and humor...
...helping the poor by rebuilding houses, buying medicine and handing out extravagant Christmas gifts. Their exploits are celebrated in song in narco corridos or drug ballads, which are banned on radio and television but are immensely popular on the street, where the gunslingers are often referred to valientes, or brave ones - and stores with names like "Mafia Clothes" sell gold chains of Kalashnikov rifles to heavily armed men in alligator-skin boots who drive huge, gleaming pickups. "These guys are scared of nothing," says Mercurio Sanchez, 50, a record store owner. "They have no fear of the police, the army...
...Before a packed house at the 800-seat Debussy Theatre, Tarantino bounds onstage with the sort of animal and intellectual energy seen in few films here this year. Without much prodding from Ciment, he pinwheels opinions, more or less praising the new flop movie Speed Racer (bravo, brave Q.T.!), and railing against film composers, coming in at the last moment to "save" a film with their intrusive underscoring: "Who the f--- is this guy, throwin' his sh-t over my movie...
...pictures taken with family after a malignant tumor was discovered in his brain, Senator Edward Moore Kennedy wore a grin. It was a familiar, reassuring sight. Can he--or we--remember a time before he mastered the brave face? Ted Kennedy was 12 when he first attended a sibling's funeral. By age 36, he was the last of the four Kennedy brothers still standing. He has endured an awesome catalog of trials, humiliations, griefs, terrors and mortifications--always in public, always with his chin...
...attributes: simplicity and innovation. The first came naturally. The second arose from a life-changing trip to the U.S. almost 40 years ago. In his physical prime, Gibson, who died May 9 in Sydney after a long struggle with dementia, was a good player, rugged and brave. But that's not how he'll be remembered. He is recognized as the finest coach in the history of rugby league in Australia. Winner of five premierships between 1974 and 1983, he was last month named Coach of the Century by a panel of experts that chose a greatest-ever Australian team...