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...four years. For the athletes, this is the moment for which they have worked their entire lives. These athletes are the best in the world at what they do, and we should admire their achievements and dedication. Most of them will not be rewarded with huge contracts, and will fade into obscurity once their moment in the spotlight is over...
...first glance, the blond, youthful-looking Bala contrasts sharply with the darker, more brooding Moore. Once the physical appearances are put aside and the masks are brought down over their faces, however, the differences begin to fade...
Harvard students will probably avoid the new establishment the same way they steer clear of Pizzeria Uno's (unless those who are underaged simply have a horrible fake I.D.) and for the same reasons: It's commercial, antiseptic and boring. So despite its corporate strength, Friday's will probably fade away and disappear into the realm of mediocrity whence it came...
When Asia started sinking late last year, few of the highly paid stock market mavens in the U.S. worried much about any ripples reaching home. Too distant, too little. Too bad. But the arrogance has begun to fade. Our unstoppable bull market in stocks has, well, stopped. It is now apparent that the Far East's economic troubles have become too deep to dismiss...
Scientific ideas don't die, they just fade away into popular culture. Psychoanalysis is as dead a science as alchemy. But its central idea, that somehow catharsis leads to cure, lives on--rages on--in Oprah and Geraldo and Ricki Lake and the whole steaming psychic stew that is our confessional culture...