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...quite. Ten minutes later, I'm back in the air. Another storm. This one lasts the whole flight. I run through my bleak assumptions. This time, I answer them for myself. Pilot. Lousy communicator. Plane. Holding together. Made for this. Look out the window. The pulsing clouds remind me of Van Gogh. My hands stay on my lap. I play with my rings. I'll be coming down soon enough. I register between a 3 and a 4. I can do this...
...intelligence on the court belies any charges of complacency. Listen to or read any interview, and you'll find this Duke squad is unfailingly humble, a quality that's getting rare among today's college players. And before anyone starts in on the whole Christian Laettner thing, let me remind you that while he was utterly annoying, he graduated seven years ago. It's time for everyone to move...
...interior of the ministry is still outfitted partly with rotary-dial phones. And typewriters. Bells chime every workday at 3 p.m. to remind employees to do their calisthenics. Small things, of course, but they are signs that while the U.S. zipped along a new technological path in the 1990s, Japan was stuck in a slow-motion devolution from economic miracle to financial debacle, doing things the old way by subsidizing money-losing industries. "I used to be asked quite a lot to give advice to Americans, to explain our success," says Ryozo Hayashi, a vice minister. "But it's been...
...quite. Ten minutes later, I'm back in the air. Another storm. This one lasts the whole flight. I run through my bleak assumptions. This time, I answer them for myself. Pilot. Lousy communicator. Plane. Holding together. Made for this. Look out the window. The pulsing clouds remind me of Van Gogh. My hands stay on my lap. I play with my rings. I'll be coming down soon enough. I register between a 3 and a 4. I can do this...
...should not be necessary to remind America of these religious truths and historical facts because we are all supposed to know that there is a difference between "most Muslims" and "Islamic extremists." The problem is that you would never know the former existed by reading American newspapers...