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...Baffert, whose horses won the Kentucky Derby in 1997 and '98, didn't have a steed good enough to enter this year's Run for the Roses. Neither did Russell Reineman, a Chicago businessman and stable owner who had been trying to unload a Derby hopeless called War Emblem--a 3-year-old with a small chip in each ankle and a big chip on his shoulder. "He's a mean-spirited horse," notes Baffert...
...Baffert saw something in War Emblem that Reineman didn't--a nasty competitor begging to get loose on a big track. So did Prince Ahmed bin Salman, an American-educated, Saudi Arabian stable owner who had charged Baffert with finding him a Derby runner, and the two hoped their hunch would pay off. Did it ever. War Emblem won the Derby in style, going off as a 20-to-1 shot and leading wire to wire. Two weeks later, in the Preakness, the "speed" horses were supposed to drain War Emblem like a cheap battery. He won going away. "Baffert...
...wary Virginian suggested, "The baby should also be worrying about the politicians who are ever willing to run up a tab on its yet-to-be-issued credit card." "I'm sure there are those who appreciate your parental concern," conceded a Californian who took offense at our youthful emblem of vulnerability, "but there are others who don't consider this a flattering mirror and who wonder if there is not just a little more contempt than compassion for those whom it is your ambition to inform." Or as a Minnesotan put it, "Please portray the American public...
When Chu’s family members (including her hockey-crazed grandmother) travel to Utah, they will bring more than posters and pompoms to cheer her on. The Chus all now sport tattoos, a permanent emblem of their enthusiasm and support. “They got the Olympic rings in color, and the number 13, which is my number,” Chu says...
...live and breath...become real during times of crisis and right the wrongs of an unjust world." Left behind as a fireman rushes into the flames, he adds, " A world fortunately protected by heroes of its own." When Superman, who has entered into the (inter)national consciousness as an emblem of American strength and goodwill, modestly salutes real heroics it feels right...