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...half-Jewish kid born in Cologne, Germany, who hid from the Nazis with his mother in World War II and headed for America as soon as the war was over. When he arrived, he worked as an intern for some of the great LIFE photographers and developed a skill with the honest eye of the 35-mm camera...
Despite a flood of speculation by officials in the U.S. and Iraq, no one really knows who is responsible for the increasing pace and skill of the resistance, which makes it doubly hard to devise an effective defense. As polls show American popular approval for the mission in Iraq beginning to sag and as political sniping in Washington intensifies, the Bush Administration is struggling to cast dismaying events in a hopeful light. "The more progress we make on the ground," declared the President, "... the more desperate these killers become." That struck many as an Orwellian way to measure U.S. success...
While Harvard’s 12 NHL draft picks impressed pro scouts with their size, their skating or their shot, Turano’s greatest skill has always been difficult to quantify. But if players were judged on the great intangible statistic of effort per shift, he might be an All-American...
Never again will Sato—who scored the first goal on Saturday just 95 seconds after the Crimson had fallen behind 1-0—turn and hopelessly tangle a defender’s legs with her deft displays of skill...
...Romney’s paternalistic proposal would attempt to involve parents by force; under his plan, children would be excluded from the new all-day kindergartens if their parents were unwilling—or more likely, unable—to attend two days of parenting-skill training. This idea’s degeneracy is made clear by observations almost too simple to escape even Romney himself, namely that parents who live in under-performing school districts often can’t afford to sacrifice two days’ worth of wages and that compulsory presence at parenting school smacks...