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Most athlete autobiographies are pretty mundane and predictable, but the opening sentence of your book certainly grabs the reader: "I'll kill all y'all," the drunk with the shotgun raged. You then detail your father's abuse of you and your brothers, and the moment your family stood up to him and forced him to leave for good. What made you want to open up about all this? I think because every opinion has been out there about me, and no one really knew who I was. I think people just portrayed me as this person that had everything...
...answers were so varied that analysts nearly ran out of codes to categorize them. "The U.S. has an unmatched religious dynamism," explains Lugo. "It's an open religious marketplace as well as a very competitive one. This is the supermarket cereal aisle." Without an established state religion, all faiths can freely exist in the U.S. but must compete for adherents in order to survive. (See pictures of a drive-in church...
...Certainly progress and accountability are not necessarily mutually exclusive. In striving to hit that middle ground, President Obama released the CIA interrogation memos and last week left the door open to prosecuting former Bush Administration officials who sanctioned the harsh interrogation of terror detainees. But the fact that the nation, or at least the national media, spent the next few days debating the finer points of the insult slap and waterboarding, shows how easily the search for justice can overshadow everything else. Obama is now at a juncture in his agenda where he will need to bring together as many...
...Elected Democrats, though, are also mindful that the GOP, which has had a hard time scoring points against the popular President, would like nothing better than for the Dems to overreach in their pursuit of Bush staffers. "Now that the door's open, I say, bring it on, let's have a big national debate on this," William Kristol, a conservative pundit, said on Fox News Sunday. "Let's have Dick Cheney debate anyone the left wants to produce about whether we were responsible, about whether this was a dark chapter in our history, something that we should be ashamed...
...olive branch President Barack Obama extended during the Persian New Year. Ahmadinejad's statement may be particularly important now, if seen as a prelude to next month's talks on Iran's nuclear program that will include U.S. diplomats for the first time. Breaking with the Bush Administration's open hostility to the "axis of evil" and seeking to improve relations severed after the Iranian revolution in 1979, Obama told the Iranian regime last month that the U.S. was seeking "engagement that is honest and grounded in mutual respect." (See pictures from Ahmadinejad's controversial 2007 visit to New York...