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...small, sailing-mad country, Kendall has managed to remain a "golden girl" after almost two decades on the professional circuit. "There is pressure on me, but it's not intense pressure," she says of the build-up to Athens. "I don't feel like I have anything to prove to the world, or to myself, that I'm a really good sailor and that I can do it over and over again. It's just a game...
...hope is that this government will prove its worthiness and integrity and its firm readiness to perform the mammoth tasks it is burdened with." GRAND AYATULLAH ALI HUSAINI SISTANI, spiritual leader of Iraq's Shi'ite Muslims, in a restrained endorsement of the newly appointed Iraqi interim government...
...think they broke the mold when they made Ronnie. He was a man of strong principles and integrity. He had absolutely no ego, and he was very comfortable in his own skin; therefore, he didn't feel he ever had to prove anything to anyone. He said what he thought and believed. He could move from being a sportscaster to moving pictures and TV, to being Governor of the largest state in the country for eight years and then to being President for eight years, and somehow remain the same wonderful man. Perhaps this was helped by his strong, unshakable...
Reagan still had to prove himself in A material, and just before the war he got a few chances. In the fluffy 1941 comedy Million Dollar Baby, he's Peter Rowan, a rebellious composer who's "got a sour disposition and a mouth to match." He calls himself "just a student of history. Civilization's rotting away." (Back then, he didn't mean the Soviet Union.) Reagan is pretty persuasive as a fellow spoiling for a fight with the world...
MEANWHILE ON EBAY ... A Truly Virtual Offer An entrepreneurial Londoner who tried to auction his vote for the European Parliament on eBay attracted not a single bid - which might not prove that votes can't be bought, but did earn a reprimand from his country's Department for Constitutional Affairs. An Illinois student who offered his entire high school for sale on the site got a little more interest. The listing, said the Chicago Tribune, promised to throw in the school's chess team if offers topped $5. It garnered more than a dozen bids, the highest...