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...Chinedu Nwankwo Umungasi, Nigeria Time to Get Down Columnist Joe Klein's "All You Have To Do Is Believe" [Sept. 20] quoted an unnamed prominent Democrat who said of President Bush, "If we can't beat this guy, with his record ... ," and then the Democrat found himself unable to finish the sentence. If I may, I would like to complete it for him: If the Democratic Party can't beat Bush, then it deserves to go the way of the Whigs and the Know Nothings. And if Bush gets re-elected, I swear I will never vote Democratic again. Cary...
...greatest aspects of track and field competition is that it is a purely objective sport. Black and white. Everyone starts at the same time and the man who reaches the finish line first always wins. Case closed. This year in track and field, however, the story was anything but black and white. Sports headlines weren’t filled with wins and losses or times and records, rather they were dominated by Victor Conte, Balco and the biggest athletic drug scandal in US history. Conte claimed that 27 athletes, including 15 track and field superstars, a champion boxer and swimmer...
...don’t we do that anyway?). The issue here isn’t necessarily the desire for success, but rather the scale by which we measure it. Success does not come in achieving victory at any cost or by taking a short cut just to cross the finish line first, rather success comes in the daily struggle and dedication to achieve a goal. There’s nothing black and white about it because greatness means something different to each person...
...what if it's 10:30 and your 10-year-old is still toiling away? Is it better to send him to bed or have him finish? Send him to bed! A sleepy child is going to experience only diminishing returns for his efforts and will be tired the next day. Talk to the teacher, advises Aaron Pallas, who studies parent involvement at Teachers College in New York City. What are the teacher's expectations? Is he or she aware the work takes so much time? The problem could also lie with the child's study habits...
...Reflection will come later; the battle is still raging. The next move, says Wiley, "is we go toward the ambush, to pick a fight. They started it; we're going to finish it." But word comes that the insurgents have dispersed, melting away before the showdown the Marines so desperately want, that they were trained to win. But despite their superior firepower and technology, the Marines cannot dictate the terms of this fight. Instead, they move back down the stairs once more, past women and children huddled in the front room, into their vehicles and back to the base...