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...absolutely trilled," Harrington said in his trademark Irish brogue after his victory, before adding, characteristically, "I'm quite enjoying this [acceptance speech]. I don't think I'll get off the stage...
...giant ego and multimillion-dollar business empire, never managed: perspective. Following a good shot or bad, his smile seemed to acknowledge the reality, so elusive to all athletes, that win or lose he was still being paid a lot of money to play a game. In his joyous acceptance speech on Sunday, Harrington recounted a telling anecdote from his second round. After a double bogey that could have taken him out of the running, he was walking to the next tee box when a fan reached over the ropes, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry about...
...January 2013, America has welcomed home most of the servicemen and -women who have sacrificed terribly so that America might be secure in her freedom," McCain said in May, during a speech about his goals for his first term in office. "The Iraq war has been...
...large part of Afghanistan's deterioration on the Bush Administration's focus on Iraq. "In fact - as should have been apparent to President Bush and Senator McCain - the central front in the war on terror is not Iraq, and it never was," he said in a major foreign policy speech on July 15th. "It is unacceptable that almost seven years after nearly 3,000 Americans were killed on our soil, the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 are still at large. If another attack on our homeland comes, it will likely come from the same region where 9/11 was planned...
...Obama's promises appeal to Afghans who have long complained that their country was forgotten when the US went to war in Iraq. His speech was broadcast on local television, and as in the US, many here see him as the candidate for change. "He looks young and active," says carpet seller Abdul Saboor, 56. "Bush has made too many mistakes in Afghanistan, so if Obama can change the policy it is good for America and good for us." Saboor is acutely aware of the problems insecurity have brought to his country; his carpet shop, which used to be next...