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...Sheinkopf recalls a sad moment from Spitzer's 1998 attorney general campaign: Spitzer had been charged with improperly using his father's money to help finance his career. He denied the truth until the last possible moment, when he finally admitted that his dad made it possible for him to lend his campaign millions. "I looked over and saw this man - thin, in shirtsleeves with frayed cuffs, holding himself in the corner," Sheinkopf says. "I thought, This must be the loneliest man on the planet. And in fact, he turned...
...sad lackey of the empire, Uribe.' HUGO CHAVEZ, President of Venezuela, attacking pro-U.S. Colombian President Alvaro Uribe after Colombia's military launched a raid in Ecuador against Colombian rebels...
This is embarrassing for the Bush Administration, which launched a splashy effort to mediate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict last November. But blaming the Administration alone for this sad state of affairs is off the mark; it's hard to cure a patient who just doesn't want to be treated...
...recently banned life-saving therapeutic abortions for women. But instead of hearing those criticisms, the current Sandinista government has shut the door on civil society. "It was easier for us to work with the Ministry of Health under previous [conservative] governments than it is now; and that's very sad for me to say," Hamlin lamented...
...That basketball has become a reflection of the country's disunity is one of Lebanon's sad ironies: The sport was brought here by American missionaries and educators in the early 20th century as part of a Wilsonian nation-building project among the colonized peoples of the Middle East. The hope may have been that sports could help foster the values of a civil society that erased boundaries between Christians and Muslims, East and West, but that never happened. "In Lebanon, we never have progress," said Ellie Fawaz, a legendary Lebanese player who himself was taught basketball by an American...