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...Commish Tagliabue hangs up his spikes Roger Goodell, the National Football League's chief operating officer and a 24-year league vet, was elected to succeed commissioner Paul Tagliabue, who will retire before the season begins Sept...
...requires a more sober and rational approach than we have pursued over the past five years, one that involves figuring out how much we are truly willing to change our way of life to reduce the risk of another 9/11. Until that calculation is made, terrorists will continue to succeed even when they fail. "The secondary concern of all terror plots has always been the secondary impact of attacks--getting democracies and free societies so frenzied to prevent new attacks that we start eroding and violating the very freedoms and liberties that the authors of terrorism themselves want to destroy...
...white house have apparently realized that going it alone is not a feasible strategy in international relations [July 17]. But anyone who has matured past childhood knows of the need to cooperate with others to do anything constructive. Bullies may win for a while, but they never succeed in the end - and their end is always ignominious. The Bush Administration must be held accountable for what it should have known. Tom Ehlinger Bloomington, Minnesota, U.S. Missile Madness Re "The Kim conundrum" [July 17], on the problem posed by North Korea's nuclear program and missile tests: Your story said, "Despite...
...Does Gadenne believe in them? "I believe you should keep your heart open," she says. "Dream, believe, create, succeed-I love that saying." She's followed it, too: after her marriage ended, she brought up four children on her own "and they've all turned out great." Now the shop keeps her young: "I love listening to what kids have to say. Some of them have such wonderful imaginations. It's a shame when they're told, 'Don't believe that, it's not real.' Children who don't have that bit of fantasy in their life-they...
...Shane's got a lot of potential as a player and a person," says Greatorex. After two years in Halls Creek, the constable first class sees among the town's youth little ambition to succeed-or desire to leave. In the dying light, Clinton Cox's small posse of junior Auskick players are making way on the field for the senior squad. "So much talent goes to waste around here," Greatorex says. "I see it every day. The ones that make it are kids who have strong family support from an early...