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...sport. But China's sports system has also been successful by deliberately focusing on Olympic events that were underfunded and unappreciated in the West. When China fully rejoined the Olympic movement in 1984, the country discovered that many women's sports were languishing overseas. Already steeped in a socialist mantra that preached equality between the sexes, China invested heavily in women's sports far before Title IX?the U.S. government mandate to end gender discrimination in collegiate sports?began leveling the playing field in America. "In addition to good training, our women can eat bitterness more than women from other...
...contains humorous real-life case studies that exemplify the growing phenomenon of "doing your own thing." After all, we live in an age of Fear Factor and Survivor, in which "everyone wants their 15 minutes of fame," says Putzier. Tolerating employees who are different might be a sensible management mantra, but Putzier offers up little more than commonsense tips to managers on how they can use even the strangest workers to their company's advantage...
...national game may be double edged. On the one hand, greater efficiency has facilitated more championships by Brazil and previously unthinkable success for such relative outsiders as Greece, South Korea or Senegal. The idea that "there are no longer any easy games" at international level has become a mantra among national team coaches, as the gap between the teams has narrowed. But the more national teams try to play the same way, the more difficult it becomes to distinguish national idioms of the game. And the spectacle is sometimes diminished as a result...
...them with a jazzy reveille of facts and innuendos and get them involved. "There's millions of you on the sidelines," Moore notes, "and I'm like the coach saying, 'Come on, bench, get in the game!'" And play for which side? That's easy to guess. Moore's mantra is that he made the film to prevent Bush's re-election--or, as many Democrats would say, election, given that they believe the first time he was appointed by the Supreme Court...
Politicians tend to campaign somewhere in mid-mainstream. In the past election, voters could choose between a candidate who called himself born again, argued for more federal funding for faith-based programs and promised to consider in policymaking the pop mantra "WWJD: What Would Jesus Do?" That candidate was Al Gore. Or they could vote for Bush, who was born to East Coast Episcopalian parents, was sent to Presbyterian Sunday school in Texas, converted when he married a Methodist, and was renewed in faith thanks to the evangelical witness of Billy Graham--a fairly typical American spiritual journey...