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Let’s be honest: who would you rather root for, a team that is becoming more and more like the rival that it claims to hate, a team that now perennially finds itself within arm’s length of the crown, a team whose fans are in a never-ending sobfest, crying about their misfortunes just three years removed from a title...
Putting the Rockies’ remarkable, extraordinary, and astonishing 21-for-22 win streak aside, the personalities in Denver are second to none. Who can’t root for Helton, the perennial “best player on a bad team,” a stand-up guy who’s finally getting the shot he deserves...
...pitched impoverished township dwellers against riot police in scenes reminiscent of the apartheid era, President Thabo Mbeki recognized the dangers posed by the ongoing social inequality. "The riots seek to exploit the class and nationality fault lines we inherited from our past," Mbeki told parliament. "If ever they took root, gaining genuine popular support, they would pose a threat to the stability of democratic South Africa." But Altbeker sees the danger exacerbated by the ANC's own policies of pursuing economic growth without promoting social equality. "A large body of economic thinking suggests that the widening of inequality...
...over to the 3rd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division. "But five months ago people told me this wouldn't last a month. And look," he said, pointing to the unlikely gathering of sheiks at the al Rashid Thursday. "All I know is that the more this has taken root, the more bad guys we've been able to catch. It doesn't have to be perfect to be worth doing...
...Ahmadinejad's incendiary rhetoric may seem harmless enough now, but we should remember that Hitlers don't become Hitlers unless they are underestimated and appeased. The Adolf Hitler of 1933 was much smaller than the 1944 version. John Root, Grover Beach, Calif...