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...know, I don't understand why you're playing that white man's game. So stupid." For Gerald Coleman, a goaltending prospect in the Anaheim Ducks organization, those words still sting, like a high-stick to the forehead. At the time Coleman, an African-American who grew up in Chicago, was in the ninth grade, and he just told the high school basketball coach that he was picking hockey over hoops. Despite those discouraging words, and the frequent racial taunts he received while playing youth hockey, Coleman stuck with the skates, and became a promising...
...owners before replacing their filters. A young volunteer named Norideem gathers some children and quizzes them on Guinea-worm prevention, a topic covered regularly by local health staff in Wantugu's schools. But when he asks where Guinea worm comes from, some have no answer. Others stick to a commonly held traditional belief: They tell him that it is hereditary; that it is in their blood...
What is your favorite book? -J. Matts, Cleveland, OhioIt is a tough one. For years I said it was A Time to Kill, because it was the first one. But I think the book that is going to stick with me forever is The Innocent...
...latest cycle of conflict over Gaza casts a dark shadow over President Bush's efforts to broker a Middle East peace. Palestinian anger over the plight of Gaza forced President Mahmoud Abbas to threaten to withdraw from U.S.-sponsored peace talks with Israel. Abbas later said he'd stick it out, although Palestinian officials in Ramallah tell TIME that the Palestinian President is becoming increasingly isolated among his people, and even inside his own Fatah movement. Says Salah Bardoweel, a Hamas legislator, "This new round of attacks by Israel creates a belief that there is a security coordination between Ramallah...
...view as cutting the fat off programs, lower-ranking officers see as a threat to the very goodwill and positive rapport they've worked months to established between themselves and community leaders. Brown says that higher-ups are going to cut the money each contractor receives - Sunni leaders who stick their necks out and who have been increasingly targeted by insurgents in the past few months. About 75% of the contract goes toward the salaries of the guards hired by the contractors. The remaining 25% - or about $11,000 - goes toward so-called administrative costs, which, apart from the minimal...