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...racing driver," he said with considerable understatement after the Hungarian race. He goes into every race and qualifying session expecting to win, and he has an aura of super-confidence that gives him an edge in the psychological battle over rivals. In a sport filled with monstrous egos, there are few that can match Schumacher's. One driver who should know how to handle him is his younger brother Ralf, who drives for Williams. The Williams car has not been consistent enough this season to see many head-to-head battles between the two, but next year could be different...
...concrete pillars, stone blocks, picks, and shovels leapt out of their trucks. Four hours later, millions of Berliners lived in a huge communist pen which over the next decade would be broadened and built into an automated armed fortress of steel and concrete -a fortress which stood as a monstrous rebuke to freedom...
...poverty and despair of daily life in the West Bank and Gaza certainly makes young Palestinian men more receptive to the monstrous promises made by Hamas and Islamic Jihad that suicide bombers earn a their way into a kind of heavenly VIP lounge, complete with the bizarre guarantees of salvation for 70 of their relatives and the right to have their way with 70 virgins in paradise. And yet the fundamentalist movements of Afghanistan and Egypt are a reminder that the most extreme distortions of Islam tend to gestate in situations of the most extreme social and economic conditions...
...Every big city had a favorite Top 40 station, but Wibbage was huge. Before switching formats, it had been the sixth-rated Philadelphia station; after, it was first, by a huge margin. In the only ratings survey I can find, for the summer of 1961, WIBG corraled a monstrous 33.3 percent of the listening audience, three times the share of its closest competitor. (In the glory days of AM radio, all FM stations together cadged only about 6 percent.) And if your mind isn't boggled yet, consider this stat, from the Philadelphia Music Alliance...
...Some see only the evil - monstrous possibilities, wicked abuse...