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...single “people” in America when he delivered the Gettysburg Address. He spoke in the middle of a bitter civil war to encourage one half of “the people” to keep fighting the other half.Lincoln’s words ring true to Americans now, comfortable in our certainty that we are one people. When Americans talk about the situation in Iraq, there’s often an air of condescension. Too bad the Iraqis can’t keep it together. Guess they’re not ready to handle democracy...
...curtains drawn against the daylight didn't ring a warning bell, the grilles covering the windows should have. But after 300 km in the glare of the Western Australian sun, the only thing to do is ditch the car, head for the nearest pub and dive into a frosty beer. Dive is the word. Up the steps, through a wooden door into a neon-lit room with battered furniture, dog racing on a couple of TVs, a pool table in an alcove illuminated by the cold blue light used in public toilets to discourage intravenous drug users...
...back of Rockhampton's Great Western Hotel on this Saturday night, 45 cowboys in cocky white straw hats and cautious padded vests will lower themselves onto the back of a close-penned bull, wedge one hand under the rope around its chest, an`d wait for the ring-ward side of the pen to be pulled open. But only 11 will ride the bull, and only four will know the glory of doing it twice. The rest will-in the time it takes several hundred steak-sandwich-chomping onlookers to gasp-be tossed in the air, flung to the ground...
...What separates bull riding from many other sports is fear, says Glen Young, who runs events for Professional Bull Riding Australia: "You're in a ring with an animal that weighs a ton and wants to kill you." The wages of fear in Australia are modest. Tonight's winner will collect $2,800 and a DVD player; the national champion, if he has a good year, can earn $40,000. But he'll also get a shot at November's world championship in Las Vegas, worth seven million American bucks...
...glimpse what that picture might feel like as, to the throb of We Will Rock You, another cowboy comes in from the ring. He's not whooping or punching the air. He's not even smiling. But his eyes are bright and he walks with a special swagger that says, "I have contended with every natural force: the centrifugal, the centripetal, the gravitational, the brute and the psychological. And for eight seconds, I have triumphed...