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...guided eight teams to a NBA championship. It helped, of course, that each squad featured the best tandem of players in the league - Jordan and Scottie Pippen with the Bulls; Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant with the Lakers. Only a miraculous charge by the Jordan-led Wizards could diminish Jackson's reputation from Zen master to a guy who rolls out the ball to the most talented team in the world. But Jackson's legacy was certainly more intact with Jordan remaining in the board room...
...Arabs cite Israel as the main cause of their extremism, it means that their extremism can only be halted once they change their attitude to Israel. The present threat will not diminish until the Arab world begins to adapt to the process of democratization that the West has been undergoing for a few hundred years. The first requirement of such adaptation is self-accountability, and the essential sign of such self-accountability will be the ability to accept the reality of a Jewish state. The fuel of antisemitism is more explosive even than the jet fuel that brought down...
...wake of the terrorist attacks—and the subsequent confirmation that the terrorists attended an American flight school and a German university—academic experts say that public resistance to electronic tracking of international students at American universities is likely to diminish, according to the Times story...
Does having an annual event in a festival style diminish the importance of the issue at hand? In the end, an event such as the Freedom Rally is unlikely to have any serious political impact in its own right, but the possibility remains that the publicity and attention generated by the event will work in the organizers’ favor. It’s very much a self-selecting crowd, with mostly young people already enamored with the benefits of pot, and looking to celebrate a bright sunny day by firing up a bowl on Boston Common. Still, among...
...seeks to minimize or eliminate the other's claims to legitimacy. Israel and its supporters refuse to even contemplate a comparison between the Palestinian plight in the West Bank and Gaza and the condition of black South Africans under apartheid. And the Palestinians and their supporters are determined to diminish the significance of the Holocaust. Plainly, if they'd simply listen to each other, they may have a better idea of how why their peace efforts thus far have failed. But this conference is less about dialogue than about the race to place one's grievances on the record, preferably...