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...Looking back at Deng, I am reminded of Harry Truman. Both lived in the shadow of great charismatic leaders?for Deng it was Chairman Mao, for Truman, Franklin Roosevelt. Both were from the heartland of their respective countries?Deng from Sichuan, Truman from Missouri?and both reflected in speech and character the nature of their homes. They were both devoted to their wives and children, and both fought bravely in war. With the Marshall Plan, NATO, the Bretton Woods international financial institutions, and aid to Greece and Turkey, Truman saved Europe from the Soviet Union and sowed the seeds that...
...days into a rafting trip down the Franklin River in Tasmania's southwest, you'd think getting wet wouldn't worry me. True, I've fallen off the raft, fallen into the raft, been drenched and dunked and dipped so many times I never feel completely dry. But I haven't been wet like this. Maybe the siren-like chattering of the pure waters distracts us - in any case, we're careless on this rapid, too slow and uncoordinated in our approach, and too late to change course when we realize our error. The current of a mighty river doesn...
...days between sharp limestone banks where snakes lie warming in the sun. Finally, we swim into the Gordon, where the two rivers meet; a tradition, our guides assure us, though a painful one, for the Gordon, its waters released from a huge dam upstream, is even icier than the Franklin. The Gordon is flat and featureless in comparison, and by the time we reach the jetty where we're to be picked up by a yacht the next day, we're already missing the Franklin's language of fury and flow. Hot showers and beers are close, but there...
...This didn’t seem to stop them from coming up with a solid highlight for each team, which is all the more impressive considering that the only Cornell game that YES carried was the Big Red’s 59-7 loss to Penn at Franklin Field. (For those of you who are wondering, yes, YES showed the touchdown...
...revelation that it was "just election-year politics" has allowed Washington to breathe a sigh of relief. "I'm satisfied that the matter is neither unfair nor dangerous," pronounced former House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt, shortly before addressing the annual convention of the American Kennel Club on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's love of dogs...