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...some soldiers visited his village accompanied by an Islamic cleric. Accustomed to regarding the military as the ultimate incarnation of power, Hasan was deeply impressed by the reverence the soldiers showed the holy man: "Can you imagine how I felt? Those powerful men in uniform looked up to the frail-looking old preacher. I decided I wanted to be like that...
...continued, “if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years, either.” Which problems, he declined to say. Lucky Thurmond—even as the frail old man is finally wheeled away from public office once and for all, he will be glad to know that his proud tradition of racial bigotry lives on in the Senate...
...just age, however, that makes Kim appear frail. When he came to office nearly five years ago, he was a towering moral figure?Asia's Nelson Mandela, according to his many admirers. Jailed, beaten and threatened with death, he was the face of the struggle for democracy in South Korea. You felt he had the chance to become not just a good President but a great one. But with barely three months to go before he hands over power to the winner of South Korea's Dec. 19 presidential election, Kim has become a lonely, almost tragic figure, deeply unpopular...
...beats the British. Last Wednesday, accompanied by retainers with ancient titles like the Rouge Croix Pursuivant, Queen Elizabeth processed into the House of Lords to open Parliament by reading a dull speech in a firm voice. But underneath the imperial crown, the 76-year-old monarch looked drawn and frail, perhaps because of something else the British are best at: royal scandal...
While Harvard sports aficionados typically think of the Crimson’s star wide receiver when seeing the name Carl Morris in the sports pages, it is the former chair of the statistics department who was recently featured in a column on ESPN.com. A slightly frail-looking white-haired 62-year-old whose athletic career peaked on his high school tennis team, Morris would seem an unlikely subject for a feature on the sports website. But Morris’s efforts to promote RPG, a statistical formula that predicts how many runs a lineup of nine of the same player...