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Winning Shot Roger Federer is both in harmony with and in control of all the elements of a tennis court [June 29]. That is what makes us his fans. As for Rafael Nadal, he is constantly fighting all these elements, including his own body (he had to pull out of Wimbledon for overworking his knees). Nadal's game is exciting to watch, but one gets tired of watching him win with a struggle, 10 times in a row. Nadal can beat Federer every single time they meet, but that won't make him greater than Federer, nor it will make...
...that may be Sri Lanka's best hope for the future. There is a hint of it in the President's dining room. Three years ago, he co-opted two former leaders of the LTTE, who fed intelligence to the army and helped bring the eastern provinces under its control. They had spent their whole lives fighting for the destruction of the Sri Lankan state but are now ministers in Rajapaksa's government. They stood in the buffet line with everyone else, and then quietly sat down to discuss the afternoon's committee meetings over lunch. The real world...
...Gathering of the Exiles Over the years, the Israeli government has paid lip service to the idea of opposing settlements, mainly by evacuating small outposts while supporting the large, suburban-style blocs. In 2005, Israel turned Gaza over to Palestinian control, ceding major settlements for the first time in 30 years. For the settlers, who frequently justify their presence as sanctioned by God, that act was a benchmark provocation and - in the view of religious nationalists - a divine repudiation of Israel's failure to settle yet more land. The government compensated each of the Gaza families with...
...David Levine cartoon. So the movie's Lynton Barwick (David Rasche) is just Rumsfeld with a haircut, not a lobotomy. "We don't need any more facts," Lynton proclaims. "In the land of truth, my friend, the man with one fact is the king." And he is in control of what passes for fact. He doctors the minutes of an important meeting, telling an aide, "They should not be a deductive record of what happened to have been said, but it should be more a full record of what was intended to have been said." No wonder one of Lynton...
There is another lesson in Wiedeking's downfall, a lesson unlikely to be lost on automotive executives, investment bankers or even European Union bureaucrats: Volkswagen is not just any German company. Wiedeking lost his bid for control of VW when he lost the support of Ferdinand Piech, the VW supervisory board chairman who initially backed a Porsche takeover. Piech realized that Christian Wulff, the premier of the state of Lower Saxony, which holds a blocking stake in the carmaker, would not support a takeover. All Wulff had to do was use the so-called Volkswagen...