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...sisters, nine and 10 years older than I, were lucky to be girls; nearly all their boyfriends were killed. My country fought sooner, longer and at greater cost than America, but at no time did we think we were fighting against genocide. What we contested, as did Franklin Roosevelt, was the Nazis' violent assault on Western civilization. Democracy was saved, and with it, all the freedoms that we currently take for granted. That's what made it a good war, and those who were chosen to give their lives so that we could enjoy ours, whether Jews or gentiles, were...
...crafty fellow who likes to be underestimated is a classic character in American history and literature. Ben Franklin liked to pose as the common man, and the simple sayings in Poor Richard's Almanac cloaked profound ideas. Both Tom Sawyer and his creator Mark Twain liked to pass themselves off as country bumpkins who were easily duped before they cleverly duped you. Abraham Lincoln invariably described himself as a slow-speaking country lawyer before outwitting his rivals...
...summer of '44, this bucolic hotel at the base of the Presidential Range in New Hampshire's White Mountains might well have been at the top of the world. It was then and there that Franklin D. Roosevelt and the leaders of 43 other nations met under its Spanish Renaissance rooftops and established the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the gold standard--the basic structure of postwar international finance...
...When they are not calling him Wizard (a tribute to his magical offensive abilities), the Mariners gleefully refer to Ichiro as Ichiballs. He has learned a variety of English curse words, plus some of America's most useless phrases. Rookie reliever Ryan Franklin taught Ichiro to say "chillin' like Bob Dylan...
...Then," says Franklin, "I had to teach him who Bob Dylan...