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...Representing the USA was a big honor and it was definitely in the back of my mind throughout the tournament,” Ogunwole wrote, though he added that it isn’t something he plans to make too much a habit of. “I don’t have any Olympic aspirations...
After taking the SEAL to Sabari-Minah, Gulab called a village council and explained that the American needed protection from Taliban hunters. It was the SEAL's good fortune that the villagers were Pashtun, who are honor-bound never to refuse sanctuary to a stranger. By then, said Gulab, "the American understood that we were trying to save him, and he relaxed...
...DIED. JAMES STOCKDALE, 81, candid, self-deprecating U.S. Navy Vice Admiral who earned the Medal of Honor for his rare courage in Vietnam, and who later ran for Vice President beside Ross Perot; in Coronado, California. After leading the first U.S. air strike into North Vietnam in 1964, he was captured and imprisoned the following year at the infamous "Hanoi Hilton," where he was brutalized repeatedly over seven-and-a-half years and held in solitary confinement for four. Stockdale inspired fellow POWs, including the future Senator John McCain, with his motto "Unity Over Self" and his remarkable defiance...
...aura of intellectual smugness. Titles like The Naked Night, Smiles of a Summer Night, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, The Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darkly, The Silence, Persona, Cries and Whispers, Autumn Sonata, Fanny and Alexander and After the Rehearsal, which once constituted a summa-cum-laude cinematic honor roll, have since tumbled into Trivial Pursuit territory...
DIED. JAMES STOCKDALE, 81, candid, self-deprecating Navy vice admiral who earned the Medal of Honor for his rare courage in Vietnam and later ran for Vice President with Ross Perot; after a battle with Alzheimer's; in Coronado, Calif. After leading the first U.S. air strike into North Vietnam in 1964, he was captured and imprisoned the following year at the infamous "Hanoi Hilton." As the senior officer, he was singled out by captors, who brutalized him repeatedly over 71/2 years and held him in solitary confinement for four years. Inspiring fellow POWS, including Senator John McCain, with...