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...that, aged 16, one of the most talented swimmers of all time walked away from the sport, rarely to be seen by the public for 25 years. Comebacks seldom work. Typically, the retired athlete, deprived of the thrills of his prime, returns full of hope, only to be promptly reminded why he left: his body doesn't work like it used to. What Gould is doing amounts to a comeback: on April 1, aged 47, she'll crouch on the blocks beside teen-agers to contest the 50-m butterfly at the Australian Olympic Team Swimming Trials in Sydney...
...Seldom have I found an essay to be more off the mark. Sullivan's only correct statement is that Bush faces re-election problems. Although Churchill was indeed a great leader, Sullivan's claim that "he was the difference between victory and defeat" carries things way too far. It was the British navy and air force that kept the Nazis from invading Britain. But final victory required having Russia and the U.S. on Britain's side. So whether the British Prime Minister had been Neville Chamberlain or Winston Churchill or Clement Attlee, there would not have been a British defeat...
America had seldom enjoyed so much international goodwill as after Sept. 11, and so little as we did last spring when we headed into war. But where Kerry cites the high cost of sympathy squandered, Bush sees value in showing resolve in the face of resistance. "We showed the dictator and a watching world that we mean what we say," the President says; he points to countries like Iran and Libya falling in line, and to Iraq as "an example of democracy rising at the heart of the Middle East." He knocks Kerry for voting against the first Gulf...
...divisions to strengthen the hand of that enemy. That logic suggests bin Laden and his leadership circle would see a call for war against Shiites as inherently dangerous to al-Qaeda's wider objectives. Which means the dynamic confronting the U.S. both in Iraq and the wider Arab world seldom conforms to the binary Sunni vs. Shiite simplicities of which some in Washington appear to be rather fond...
...conservative denomination [of Judaism], it is common for women to be in positions of leadership. It’s more seldom in Orthodox communities,” says Josh I. Rosenbloom ’05, who served as president last semester and is an Orthodox...