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...extraordinary moment the atmosphere was transformed. Anger seeped from the tent into the cool winter air as the crowd sang the black anthem God Bless Africa. They sang first in Zulu and then in Sotho. They sang with joy, and they sang with conviction. Speaking in English, Tutu told the gathering that he had asked the government, "Please allow us to mourn, to bury our dead with dignity, to share the burden of our sorrow. Do not rub salt in our wounds ... I appeal to you because we are already hurt, already down. We are humans, not animals. When...
...baseman of the Cincinnati Reds, his hometown and original team. "Maybe it's because everyone knows how much money we make, but today's young players hold something in. Just on the field and in public. It comes out in the clubhouse, when only the other players can see." Joy is the word. "Twenty-five years ago, they gave me $400 a month to play baseball. I couldn't believe it. For being Rookie of the Year in 1963, I got a $5,000 raise that brought me up to $12,500. My last season in Philadelphia [1983], I made...
...trickled in from the final round. One greeted the other who hailed the next. "Come look at this, the kid's got a chance." The room thickened with old golfers. Billy Casper ambled by. "Billy, Billy, the kid's going to win it." When he did, they shouted for joy, stood there plainly moved for a moment. All of these are only games, but on the bottom line, money is not what moves us. --By Tom Callahan
...about the hypocrisy of corporate America was cool in a junior high sort of way, and now he’s a part of the Cruise/Travolta club, but who am I to deprive him of his happiness? He did what he did because he wanted to find peace and joy, and if he’s making money, isn’t it a bit moronic to whine about how much cooler it (or I) was when I was the only one on the block who knew about...
...some of the best in the college,” said then Dean Byron S. Hurlbut, class of 1889. Several members of the Harvard administration were even rumored to be Med. Fac. men themselves. So Hurlbut struck a delicate bargain with the club: he would grant amnesty to Joy and his Med. Fac. compatriots—if they would agree to abandon the club forever...