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...feel to see the swim meets broadcast on a major network during prime time in Australia? And what do you think about the chances of something like that happening in the US? -Miky Sparke, Brisbane, Australia That's something I think all us would love to happen in the U.S. But it is hard. There are so many other high profile sports, like football, basketball and baseball, that it's tough to put swimming events on prime time because other sports have so much time. Our best chance to be able to have that, will be for Olympic Games next...
...Kuan Yew memorably summed up these fears years ago when he said that allowing Japanese participation in peacekeeping operations was akin to giving liquor-flavored chocolates to a recovering alcoholic.) But despite the LDP's legislative success, constitutional revision is far from certain-and even if it does happen, the role of Japan's military is unlikely to change in a threatening way. Pacifism is too entrenched and too convenient for Japan to abandon...
...Pays to Be Nice I was disgusted by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen's "No Jerks Allowed" [April 2]. Her attitude is from the aggressive 1980s. It is ridiculous to claim that there is a correlation between nastiness and giftedness. Some nasty people happen to be gifted, but it is not their nastiness that makes them so; on the contrary, it diminishes their effectiveness and costs their companies in both dollars and goodwill. I would not want to have a Steve Jobs or anyone on my team who "scars" his employees. Warren Buffett and Jimmy Carter, for example, do not find...
...best news for abortion-rights supporters may be what didn't happen in this case. We've all been waiting to see where the court's two Bush appointees - Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito - stand on Roe v. Wade, and when given the chance to repudiate it in this case, both justices declined. That opportunity came in the form of a separate opinion that Justice Clarence Thomas wrote and Scalia joined but both Roberts and Alito did not endorse - a concurrence that not only supports the majority, but goes so far as to say there shouldn...
...although there are relatives nearby. Watching television coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings, he saw Craig Scott, Rachel's brother, on TV talking about Columbine. The Virginia massacre stirred up painful memories. "It's horrible, obviously; it's overwhelming," he says. "It makes me wonder why things like that happen...