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...hope he and his family find their way through this. When all is said and done, Tiger's achievements have provided more than a decade's worth of inspiring, indelible images, and until now he has handled the glare of outsize fame and celebrity with decency. But maybe now he'll drop the imperious, impersonal façade and show his human side. That would be the best way to get fans rooting for him again...
...brave to be vulnerable again. It gives the world, and me, so much hope." - Annelise Peterson, the maid of honor at Uchitel's 2004 wedding (New York Times...
...Jakarta again is a town of joy, booming with steel, glass and shining retail spaces. But Tales of Djakarta, in which the poor bathe in the canal's toxic "yellowish water" and Japanese officers fill Menteng's villas with comfort women, obstructs those pretty views. Though not void of hope, Jakarta for Pram was a town of tough and busy griefs. The bakso sellers in and around Merdeka Square might still agree...
...French President Nicolas Sarkozy welcomed Obama's speech, calling it "courageous." But Sarkozy has already pledged that he "won't send an additional soldier" to bolster the nearly 3,750-strong French contingent. (NATO officials hope he may send more military or police trainers...
Perhaps the highest-risk strategy outlined in Obama's agenda is his hope that within 18 months, Afghan security forces will be able to take a greater role in protecting the country. When Karzai took a new oath of office at his inauguration ceremony in Kabul last month, he promised that by the end of his five-year term, Afghan security forces would be "capable of taking the lead in ensuring security and stability across the country." Accelerating the process in order to achieve the necessary number of well-trained Afghan soldiers - ideally estimated to be 134,000 troops, compared...