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...Kevin Durant: It will be fun to try to stop LeBron James, though it's not going to happen at all. It will be a task at hand-I'm going to need a couple of guys, and maybe even the ref-to help...
...course, just a random ugly experience - the kind of thing that can happen anywhere. But it was the first day I'd ever spent in South Africa, and it left an impression. As I'd discovered firsthand, it can be hard to escape the damaging clichés about Africa - about the perennial curses of bribery, corruption and lawlessness. These negative associations with Africa were much on the minds of people at the summit in Cape Town. "We are fighting an image problem," said Mo Ibrahim, a Sudanese-born cell-phone magnate who has created a multi-million-dollar prize...
...some of the reporters down there are listening awfully closely to Mr. Black's defense team," says Christopher Waddell, associate director of the Journalism School at Ottawa's Carleton University. Waddell points to articles suggesting that Donald Trump was about to testify in Black's defense. It didn't happen, "but meanwhile [the defense] got their story out there," he says...
...making dogs speak." Intrigued, the Baron allowed the Jews to stay on for a year, to teach his dog how to talk. Outside the Baron's castle, the Jews wailed: "Rabbi, how can you make such a promise? We're doomed!" The Rabbi replied with a shrug, "Anything can happen in a year. The dog could die. Or the Baron could die. Who can tell...
...enough. Some Arab diplomats point to Olmert's poor track record when it comes to fulfilling agreements, expressing skepticism that he will deliver his summit promises of money and prisoner releases much less a return to serious peace negotiations. "Let's wait and see what's going to happen," says a senior Arab diplomat. "God knows whether it will get implemented or not." Without real progress in the peace process, he points out, Hamas will regain political support at Abbas' expense...