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...We’re going to grind it out, and we’re going to find ways to win,” Caples said. “It may not always be pretty, but we’re finding a way. Through winning, we will find a way to play well...
...That doesn't mean China's robust economic engine is destined to grind to a halt. The country already suffers frequent power outages, but they occur because of insufficient electrical-generation capacity, not a lack of fuel. The mainland meets more than two-thirds of its energy needs with coal and boasts the world's largest coal reserves. But to keep the increasingly oil-dependent economy racing ahead?and to ease some of the pollution that comes from burning coal for power?China's leaders are forced to seek ever-greater supplies of petroleum from overseas. More than half...
Phelps' biggest impediment on the way to swimming history may well be his own teammates, many of them Olympic medalists and world-record holders. And then there are the Australians, with a younger and deeper men's team that would dearly love to grind the Americans into chum. They are eager to write the coda to their 4 x 100-m medley-relay defeat in Sydney, where U.S. swimmer Gary Hall Jr. had claimed that the Americans would "smash [the Australians] like guitars." The Aussies won the next two relays, on the back of Thorpe, and mockingly played air guitar...
...authors of Washington best sellers often have partisan axes to grind. But all 10 members of the 9/11 commission (five Republicans, five Democrats) signed off on every word of this book. That's one more reason it is a rare and valuable read. --By James Carney. With reporting by Timothy J. Burger and Viveca Novak/Washington
Doctrinaire critics might not admit it, but Anderson's example lends credence to her contention that in Episcopalianism, at least, some battles are already won. "A woman who really has a passion about doing ministry and doesn't have an ax to grind," she says, "can get a decent...