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...Halo break. But the boys explain that fifteen minutes actually means an hour, “and since no one can end on a losing streak, you keep playing until your luck improves. By then, of course, you’re winning, so you can’t quit now…” And the justifications continue...
...There was this feeling that our team was just not going to quit,” Fish added. “I think that because they knew that they could each count on each other not to quit, there was no reason not to give everything they...
...needs to be a meritocracy," says Jusef, who has worked at the company for 28 years, "not one based on racial discrimination." Yehya Assi Mahmoud, an Arab attorney in Kirkuk, says he saw Kurdish militias seize 28 Arab homes in his village of Shaheed last April. In June he quit the city council to protest what he considered to be American favoritism toward the Kurds; now he fears that the coming transfer of power will result in wide-scale reprisals by Kurds against their Arab neighbors. "If the U.S. left now, Kurds would move in to ethnically cleanse the remaining...
Winners never quit. At least not in boxing, where they wait until a new champ knocks them right out of the ring. But last week LENNOX LEWIS became the first active heavyweight champion to retire since Rocky Marciano did so in 1956. "I was thinking about it for a long time," said Lewis, who lost just two of 44 fights in a 14-year career. (One highlight: knocking out Mike Tyson in 2002.) "Should I go back in and have one more fight? But I realized this is the drug of the sport: there is always one more fight...
...this sense, it mimics the network?s newsmagazine flagship, ?60 Minutes,? which also pushes, or licks, or gums, the geriatric envelope. Mike Wallace and Andy Rooney are both 85; Morley Safer is a grandpaternal 73; Don Hewitt, the show?s founding and continuing boss, is 81 and reluctant to quit. But ?60 Minutes? has a ticking urgency: it?s a time bomb ever threatening to go boom. The show has a need to hector, and a suspicion, in most of its stories, that powerful people often have something to hide, and that it is the mission of Hewitt...