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...ultimately Wednesday, the U.S.'s sheer talent was too much - with Bryant leading the way, to the delight of the mostly pro U.S. Chinese crowd. Asked if he was concerned about the possibility (and that's what it remained, as they have been eliminated) of playing Greece again in the tournament - the U.S. blew them out last week but lost to them in the World Championships two years ago - Bryant deadpanned, "we're scared to death...
...open question is whether Qalibaf's modern style and conservative credentials could combine to enable him to improve relations with the West. He expresses delight with the U.S.'s overthrow of Saddam and support for the U.S.-backed Iraqi government, with which he recently held talks in Baghdad. "We sit down at one table to talk about specific issues, such as Iraq," Qalibaf says. "This shows that we can sit down at other tables too and talk with the U.S. [on other issues]." But it is vital, he adds, that the U.S. finally accepts the legitimacy of Iran's revolution...
...swept away in the chaos of New York City, I am spending my summer lost in Minnesota, bumming rides from other interns and scrambling to orientate myself in a city that I had visited a dozen times, but was never old enough to pay attention to. To my delight, Minneapolis-Saint Paul actually has more to offer than the Mall of America and Caribou Coffee (although I am still thoroughly excited by both...
...Mosley, who has kept a low profile since the news broke on March 30, expressed delight after the judge's ruling. "It demonstrates that their Nazi lie was completely invented and had no justification," he said. "It also shows that they had no right to go into private premises and take pictures and film of adults engaged in activities which are no one's business but those of the people concerned...
...used to be called aesthetics, the branch of philosophy that theorized the human response to works of art. For most intents and purposes, aesthetics collapsed in 1970 under the weight of Theodor Adorno's Aesthetic Theory. What's left is books like How Fiction Works--which is, oddly, a delight, but not for the reason it's supposed...