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...While Growden is mostly clear-eyed about Fingleton, he's too kind to him here. Bradman, who outlived Fingleton by 20 years, was entitled never to forgive him for this childish display, but he showed a greater capacity to move on than Fingleton ever did. Growden's work is a fascinating study of a complex man's relationship with a legend. It should not, however, inspire a broad reevaluation of Bradman's character...
...Helsinki After Killings, a Crackdown In the wake of a second school shooting in 10 months--which claimed 11 lives at a trade school 180 miles (290 km) northwest of the capital--the government announced it will move to tighten Finland's lax gun laws by submitting amendments to Parliament that would restrict licensing and deepen background checks. The nation's strong hunting tradition has spurred one of the world's highest rates of gun ownership...
...stopped on a bridge over the Tigris for a car wash, where masked youths, looking like bandits, had drawn water out of the cloudy current by hose. They seemed friendly enough, but as our stationary convoy began attracting curious eyes, our bodyguards said it was time to move. "We are in the war," Sami reminded us, his grin a mix of humor and utter seriousness in the rearview mirror. In a second, we were off again, dust flying, as the muffled voice of the lead driver came in over the radios: "Go, go, go! Don't anyone stop...
...hips!" scolds the cheerful instructor for the fourth time in as many minutes. Obligingly, my classmates and I traverse the dance floor like tragic auditioners for a hip-hop video. We, the participants in the High Heel Fitness Class & High Heel Walking Workshop, need more hips. We need to move our knees more. We need to tighten our core. We need to hold up our chests. We need, in short, to learn to walk again. This time in heels...
...former Wall Street colleagues; his public warnings that disaster was imminent but that the evidence had to remain secret were reminiscent of antiterrorism officials who raised the threat level to orange but refused to tell us why. Even the old claim of a rare bipartisan agreement didn't move the needle, chiefly because the approval rating of Congress has drooped to the teens...