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...much so that she doesn't even enjoy the Olympics, she says: "When you're there, it sucks. Our competition goes on for so long. By the time it's finished you're so exhausted you don't feel like doing anything. The Olympics is a bit of a pain actually," says the woman who heads to Greece this week and will celebrate her birthday the day after Athens' closing ceremony. "But then you get to the end of it, you look back, and you think 'That was radical.' And that is what draws you back again...
Long after Reagan was restored to health, the effects of the attack lingered. "There was a certain sadness," said one of his old friends, former Senator Paul Laxalt. "You could see it in his eyes. It wasn't just the physical pain. I think that he was deeply hurt, emotionally, that this could happen to him." Reagan was reluctant to admit any such hurt, but he did acknowledge to an interviewer that it had been a "reminder of mortality and the importance of time." Beyond that, he liked to say, "God has a plan for everyone...
...budget. At a time when many economists were arguing that America would just have to learn to live with 10% inflation annually, Reagan reappointed inflation fighter Paul Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve and supported his war on inflation despite withering attacks and considerable domestic pain. The economy swooned into a recession: by the following year, the GNP was shrinking at a rate of 1.9%. Unemployment reached 10.8%, the highest since the Depression, and the poverty rate grew faster than it had in decades. By 1983 the annual federal budget deficit had climbed past the $200 billion mark...
Dante Balestracci came into September looking to repeat a three-year pattern of inducing gasps of awe from the crowd and whimpers of pain from his opponents...
Finally, to Red Sox nation: Your pain and suffering is a column writer’s dream. That’s the message I leave with you. Never stop losing. Never ever stop losing...