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...talk about the accolades. How he was named unanimous Ivy League Player of the Year, unanimous first team All-Ivy, and a unanimous All-New England pick. How his sheer offensive potential put him on the Walter Payton Award list before the season started, and kept him there until midway through the season, when his statistics dropped off from 2003’s gaudy highs...
...Ghosh's report brought into focus the sheer horror of daily life in Baghdad. For those like me who have become almost inured to the TV images of the aftermath of daily bomb attacks, Ghosh's article surely was journalism at its best: sharply etched, unsentimental. Articles like his are crucial in aiding our understanding of what actually goes on in Baghdad. You should have put the heroic doctors and nurses of the Baghdad ER on your cover. Sara Kozak New York City...
...settled for becoming enormously influential photographers. But it's only now, with this MOMA show of 500-plus images, that we understand how fiercely delightful and original Friedlander is. If a sophisticated notion of what a picture can look like, the continuous construction of new avenues of feeling, and sheer, sustained inventiveness are the measures we go by, then Friedlander is one of the most important American artists of any kind since World...
...heartening trend, he says: "If words aren't spoken, they don't live" - and 20 years ago, Maori was dying. What worries Piripi and other cultural gatekeepers is that even as it gives oxygen to a few hundred Maori words, English - by its sheer boisterous vitality - is knocking the wind out of Maori itself...
...scared to excited, to 'Hey, this is kind of fun' and feeling sorry for the Iraqis," he says. Then, as attacks on U.S. troops mounted despite American efforts to help the Iraqis rebuild, Chambliss just wanted to get the job done and come home. "Finally," he says, "it was sheer hatred of the Iraqi people. People would say that is racist, but it's not. It was a culture clash. We didn't understand each other...