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Each time Tiger Woods surpasses any and all of our expectations, The New York Times publishes a editorial praising the golf pro--and rightfully so. He possesses extraordinary talent and he has developed into a refreshing and respected American hero. Yesterday morning, however, the Times neglected to applaud another accomplished and inspirational American athlete in the aftermath of her athletic victory: Venus Williams...
Although the Vatican will not admit it, Pio Nono is a last-minute substitution for a controversial successor, Pius XII. The beatification of the later Pius was to have balanced that of Pope John XXIII, the liberal hero who called the Second Vatican Council. The past 40 years, however, have seen an unabating storm of complaint that Pius XII did not do enough to oppose the Holocaust. Postponing Pius XII's "cause" and replacing it with that of Pio Nono--also a conservative favorite--must have seemed a good idea at the time...
Sitting in his office near Hayden Lake, Idaho, the leader of the Aryan Nations has the grim demeanor of a man under siege. Richard Butler growls that "Jews run the government" and that "Jewish conspirators" are intent on destroying him. A portrait of Butler's hero, Adolf Hitler, hangs on the wall, and white-robed figurines of Ku Klux Klansmen decorate a shelf. He fiddles with a booklet of Nazi war art and clicks his teeth as he talks. At 82, he has failed in his goal of founding a whites-only homeland, and now he faces the prospect...
...ridiculous for TIME to feature such a meaningless person as Woods and hail him as a hero simply because he had the nerve to change his swing in one of the most pointless and boring "sports"--hitting a ball with a metal stick. So what if he is good at what he does and gets paid millions? His contribution to mankind is still zero. RALPH GALLAY Plainsboro...
Locker 13 is a formulaic combination of junior-high athletics and supernatural intimations. The whole tale seems as overheated as its young hero Luke Greene's reaction when he learns he has been assigned the unlucky locker: "My breath caught in my throat. I started to choke...