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There's always plenty of pressure on athletes to perform to their absolute best at the Olympics, but how many can say that they have shouldered the burden of competing in front of not one, but two presidents and billions of TV viewers...
...militarized narco-trafficking industry with billions of dollars to splash on buying loyalty. That, combined with a media culture that has drawn increasing attention to the lifestyles of the country's élite amid a deteriorating economy, has meant that wealth in Mexico today carries with it a heavy burden of anxiety...
...mother has recounted to me how when I was a prisoner of war in Vietnam, she sometimes overheard my father praying for me. He was in charge of U.S. forces in the Pacific at the time and suffered from the burden of commanding a war in a country where his son was imprisoned. As my mother recalled, she could hear my father in his study, on his knees, beseeching God to "show Johnny mercy...
...establishing a collective, supplementary reconstruction fund - à la the Marshall Plan - to assist Kabul, but with private direct business investment. (India is booming, after all.) This proposed regional support, which could not as easily be stigmatized as "neocolonial" and therefore would have greater long-term legitimacy, could alleviate the burden on the U.S. and NATO and end up helping heal an otherwise failed and moribund state in a very critical part of our troubled world. Maurice Kane, SAN DIMAS, CALIF...
...speechify or make liberal-minded, quasi-political appeals for relief of its characters' hard lives. She lets us come to care for Ray at our own unforced pace, and Leo plays superbly in that patient vein. There's nothing overtly heroic about her as she plods forward under her burden of her small-scale dreams. She's not cynical, but she's not expecting much, either. She's just knowing and accepting of what fate, good or bad, but never transformative, throws at her. You can see it in her eyes, in her wiry body's alertness to both danger...