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...check. His father, Matthew, is black and Esther white (they divorced in 1984), and at 15, Tim came face-to-face with racism for the first time; a girlfriend's parents refused, for the entire year they were dating, to let him in the house. Tim didn't confront them or get angry. "I was like: This is someone I'm not going to change. What can I do?" he says. When, on July 11, Howard finished MetroStars practice knowing that the voice mail on his cell phone contained messages saying whether the British Home Office would allow...
...strongly believe that culture and education are the highest investment the Greek people can make. WHEN YOU HELD YOUR FIRST MEETINGS ON THE OLYMPICS, WERE THINGS BETTER OR WORSE THAN EXPECTED? We've been following the course of Olympic preparations very closely from the start, so I didn't confront any surprises. There have been delays. However, at this point there is no time for additional criticism. We are almost five months from the Games, and we have only one goal and responsibility: to make sure that all of us, not just the government, but all Greeks, contribute in order...
...took two years of the rat race and some good advice from his girlfriend before Thurston decided to chase his true passion and once again confront the hilarious struggle of American existence...
Wartime leaders have always faced the worst fear: defeat in battle. But in democracies at least, war leaders also confront another danger: success. The qualities that make for great statesmanship in wartime--determination, a single focus on victory, a black-and-white conviction of who is friend or foe--can often seem crude or overbearing when peace comes around. The most dramatic example of this in Western history is Winston Churchill. It is no exaggeration to say that without him, Britain may well have been destroyed by Hitler. He was the difference between victory and defeat. But almost the minute...
...constant invocation of incendiary words like war and evil--suggests a portentous, emotional year in the offing. It is possible that the passions raised by such images will lead to an intense national debate over the decisions made by President Bush: to go to war in Iraq and confront the threat of terrorism the way he has, to drastically cut taxes, to create an expensive new Medicare prescription-drug entitlement. But it is also possible that a public besotted with the sensational will be unable to engage in a substantive argument--and instead be deflected into periphera like the quality...