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Though he acknowledges that the business of shoe repair is a waning one, his love for and pride in his work eclipses any anxiety he may have...
...Come Down On Me,” the album’s best track and almost a stand-out anthem, perhaps does the best job of this, perfectly capturing the Reagan years’ excess, pride, and belief in the future through a constantly moving synth line with periodic booms from lower registers...
...negotiated solution, Putin persists in his approach. He may well feel locked into a strong stance on Chechnya because it was his original political platform and the basis of his popularity. He hailed the war as a rallying point for reviving Russia’s territorial unity and national pride and as a clear signal of Russia’s military will to Western nations and to Russia’s other ethnically-based would-be separatist regions...
...until at least 2007. But a foreigner would never have got the chance to run Sony if Japan was not changing. In Sony itself, that transformation is now well grounded. "The Japanese executives' concern about Sony is palpable," says Stringer. "They are not rooting for me to fail. Our pride has been battered and it's time to fight back...
...DIED. TERESA WRIGHT, 86, Hollywood actress who achieved the never-duplicated feat of winning an Oscar nomination for each of her first three films; in New Haven, Connecticut. After debuting as Bette Davis' daughter in 1941's The Little Foxes, she played Lou Gehrig's wife in The Pride of the Yankees and won an Oscar for her role as Greer Garson's daughter-in-law in Mrs. Miniver. Her wholesome but refined screen presence graced some of the '40s best movies, including Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt and William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives...