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...your 100 "Athletes To Watch," a mere two are Australian. No mention of Eamonn Sullivan, whose world record in the 50-m freestyle makes him the fastest man in the water in history. No mention of breaststroke world-record holder Liesel Jones or at least 20 other potential gold medalists from Australia. Considering Australia's small population, the disproportionate success of Australians at past Olympics, and the fact that Australia is expected to be fourth in the medal tally behind China, Russia and the U.S., you would have been justified in including the entire national Olympic team on your list...
...Beijing's Obstacle Course In "The Olympic Challenge," Pico Iyer insinuates that the world will regret awarding China the 2008 Olympics as it did with the 1936 Games in Berlin [Aug. 4]. Why even mention that established architect Albert Speer, the son of Hitler's architect, contributed to the design of the event? China is not without indiscretions, but to equate the country with the Nazi regime is reprehensibly unjust. Winston Wang, Princeton, New Jersey...
While the 99 represent Allah's myriad attributes - everything from wisdom to faithfulness - there is no overt mention of religion in the stories. "When you read through the books, there is no mention of Islam, Allah or the Koran," says Mutawa. "I used an Islamic archetype, but the actual stories don't show any Islam, because they are based on values that we all share." Even Superman, Batman and Spider-Man, he says, "are based on religious archetypes. Like the prophets from the Bible, they are all orphans. Superman left his parents on the planet Krypton, and Batman sees...
...disjointed book. It's impossible to argue with some of Morris and McGann's targets. Duplicitous credit-card companies, housing-crisis profiteers and lobbyists working for shady foreign governments are all deserving of scorn. Yet there are more than a few straw men mixed in, not to mention an obsession with the travails of Bill Clinton. Nonetheless, Fleeced does manage to effectively tap into populist anger toward those in charge. Perhaps their next book should simply be titled Grrrr...
...same question about Obama to Pakistan's legendary Colonel Imam. The colonel is on French leave from Pakistan's notorious Inter-Services Intelligence agency. But he knows the Taliban - he organized it in the mid-nineties. And that's not to mention that he all but invented the Afghan resistance in the early eighties...