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Last night, for example, I and a bunch of other journalists stayed late into the evening at the press center in the town of Pau carefully crafting our stories about the allegations of drug use against Armstrong--unfounded, it seems. I had to be in Bordeaux--a city three hours away--by morning, so I filed my story about 10, packed quickly and took a taxi to Bordeaux. By 2 a.m. the taxi driver and I were engaged in a fascinating discussion about drugs and the effect they had on cycling...
...running a surplus so big that it could total $6 trillion over the next 15 years. A Democratic President travels to the poorest corners of the country, such a convert to the miracles of private enterprise that he brings with him not a bushel of federal promises but a bunch of business leaders whom he has deputized to solve the problems of the poor, with maybe a tax break or two as a sweetener. Lawmakers are talking about spending more on both defense and education while cutting taxes, fixing Medicare and paying down the national debt at the same time...
...Americans are a competitive bunch. It was probably inevitable that the striving impulse would sooner or later reshape kids' sports. But the trend has been abetted by other, less predictable changes in American life: the ascendancy of the automobile, the shrinking of open spaces, the ubiquity of the two-earner family and the pervasive fear of crime. Baby-boomer parents may look back wistfully at their own childhood, when playing sports was a matter of heading to the corner sandlot or the neighborhood park after school for a pick-up game. But the sandlot's been filled...
...catalog the lovable stuff about Americans, especially since we have no shortage of public scolds telling us our morals have gone to hell, our families are falling apart, our kids are spoiled rotten, our government can't do anything right, and we are, in short, the sorriest bunch of decadents since the palmy days of the late Roman Empire...
...contrast to the times when hollywood stereotyped Chinese men as a bunch of Charlie Chans, Bruce Lee triumphed against the odds and showed the West a living, breathing Chinese superman. Lee represents the struggle of American minorities who are treated unfairly because of the color of their skin. WIBOWO SUMARDJO Auckland, New Zealand...