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...probably make a fool of myself, but I’m willing to take that chance. I’ll know that at the glorious moment when my off-balance 29-footer falls and I beat you by a final score of one to nine, I will have saved basketball from its addiction to you. I will have saved my Knicks from more misery, the Wizards from having to wait before rebuilding and the city of Chicago from unspeakable torture...
...Shallow men believe in luck," Ralph Waldo Emerson famously wrote, but World Trade Center employees who happened to miss work on Sept. 11 must think him a fool. We heard these stories all week, and they gave us a national case of goose bumps: the bus from Staten Island missed for the first time in four years, the car that needed repairing, the long-debated trip to Israel taken last week that proved safer than staying home. Even the most rational person lists toward superstition after hearing the stories. Was there a reason? Is God making choices...
...There I was, a beautiful sunset in the background, a leg sticking out of the rubble, and a lunatic 100 feet above me climbing like a monkey. It was totally crazy, Akana says. Its great that so many people want to volunteer, but if youre there to gawk and fool around, its totally inappropriate. I kept wanting to tell those people, How would you feel if hundreds of strangers treated your mangled body like a tourist attraction and walked through your ashes...
...Tabasco ice cream. You never think, "Great sauce," at the French Laundry. You think, "Man, that sauce tastes more like ginger-carrot than eating a pound of ginger and carrots." The epiphanies come from finally figuring out exactly what certain foods are supposed to taste like. He refuses to fool you into thinking what's in front of you is more than just food. "I remember my first experience at a three-star restaurant in France, and it didn't meet my expectations. I read about these guys like they were gods, and it's only food," he says...
...arrived at a "credible" goal of gathering at least 3,000 weapons in 15 designated collection points. A spokesman for the Macedonian government said it would accept NATO's estimates, but that is hardly the last word on that central question. A NATO official in Brussels called it "a fool's game" to countenance escalating claims from hard-line elements of the government that as many as 100,000 arms are in rebel hands. Experienced soldiers will be looking more closely at the quality of the weapons handed in than the quantity: a shoulder-fired antitank is worth far more...