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Lessons from Mandela The cover picture of Nelson Mandela brought tears to my eyes [July 21]. His confident smile affirmed that, while we may go through difficult times, there is hope for the future as long as we embrace the ideals of this wonderful man. Maggie Lew, Grand Island...
...consecutive days) the ultimate high comes from meeting indigenous peoples en route - the Bedouin in the Sahara; Kyrgyz, Mongolians and Uighurs in the Gobi; and Atacameño tribesmen in the Atacama. "Although there are vast cultural differences between the native populations and the racers," he says, "a smile seems to cut right through the divergence and unite...
...cannot change the cards you are dealt," he said, "just how you play the hand." With his child's smile and nimble brain and breathtakingly simple instructions tumbling out one after another, Pausch made the infernally complex machine that is modern life look as if anyone could put it together with the right tools and the right crib sheet. Come on, he seemed to say, you can do this; I have the secrets, and I'm giving them to you--for free...
...works. Riding a bicycle while holding crutches, or squatting nearly naked and spitting out whole paragraphs in a long breath, he's a veritable Cirque de Solo. Even on his deathbed (in the Malone Dies section), the McGovern-Beckett character finds much to laugh about, though his smile is a rictus...
...Sadr City, Abbas and his comrades insist they haven't gone anywhere. "We're resting," he says with a smile. As if to ominously confirm Abbas' analysis, graffiti spotted around Baghdad in the past few months has warned, "We'll be back." But when? And if they're only resting, then does that mean the government has less control over the restless opposition hotbed than it has claimed? "The government is in full control of Sadr City," says the Interior Ministry official, who declined to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the press. "There are still...