Word: path
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...INDICATOR Can monetary policymakers learn from soccer players? Bank of England governor Mervyn King thinks so. Evoking a 1986 Diego Maradona goal - the Argentine star darted through England's defense in a straight line - King said the expectation that Maradona would swerve cleared his path. The point? Market interest rates, moving in expectation of a change in official rates, can curb inflation without official rates changing. Nice goal...
...Klein's column "The Perils of Hands-On Diplomacy" [May 9] called attention to the photo of President Bush walking down an uneven path in Texas hand in hand with the infirm 80-year-old Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. There is nothing "unmanly"-as Klein characterized it-in extending a helping hand. Klein seems to lack any cultural awareness of the world outside...
...weapons assembly to tell his charges stories about what his brother Lieutenant Mike Erwin, West Point '02, was learning in Iraq. When Mark invited the new cadets to write Mike a letter, 35 of the 39 did just that. "If you ever doubt that you took the right path in life," Mike wrote his little brother, "just take out these letters and read them. These kids really looked up to you and respected you. One girl wrote how you made her cry but in time you made her a better leader." The long gray line, now 6,000 miles long...
...melted away. As I followed them to their classes, team practices, year-end banquets, and sessions at the rifle range, I began to see that our three cadets-indeed, nearly every cadet I spoke with-were incredibly self-aware and candid, each with a vastly different story about their path to West Point, and different reasons for why they decided to stay the course, even as it led to combat...
...progressive Catholics seem frustrated that the church won't be swayed by those who want it to break with 2,000 years of consistent doctrine, the church, theologically seen as the spouse of Christ, has done what a good mother should do: teach and guide us on the narrow path [May 2]. She reminds us that the church family is not a democracy and that it is not her job to be our friend. She is our mother - consistent, a little old-fashioned - but she instructs us and gives us shelter on the road to heaven. Catherine Baron Morrisville, North...