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...avoid such costly confrontations, Forbes is recasting himself more to the Christian Coalition's liking while insisting he is not undergoing a makeover. "This is where Steve has always been," says Bill Dal Col, former campaign manager and president of the Forbes think tank. Forbes' pastor at St. John on the Mountain says Forbes has a track record of talking thoughtfully about religious subjects in the confines of his own church. In May 1994 "he gave really a remarkable speech on the subject of religion, ethics and spirituality on the one hand and corporate life and free enterprise...
Considering all his childhood idols--cricket players, Russian tank drivers, school teachers--it's difficult to imagine why the grown-up Coetzee decided to write for a living. We keep expecting some pivotal moment in Boyhood that never arrives, an epiphany in which the adolescent boy realizes he is destined to write. After all, isn't the author of a memoir, especially if he's a distinguished author, supposed to explain how he came to set pen to paper in the first place? The young Coetzee, while fond of books and learning, does not seem particularly driven to his present...
LONDON: Just graduated and looking for a career? Two words: Arms sales. The global weapons trade, which dipped after the Cold War, is booming again, according to the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. The think-tank revealed Tuesday that sales grew by 8 percent last year and 13 percent in 1995, arresting a seven-year decline. The market for weapons of mass destruction has now hit a staggering $39.9 billion per annum...
Mike Piazza doesn't deserve to win because his defense is laughable and he failed to keep his team from going into the tank down the stretch...
...Going to work at the Times," says Peter Kaplan, editor of the Observer and a former Times reporter, "is like getting into a Sherman tank. You can't go more than 10 m.p.h. You can't see anything. But you know you have this enormous power." Says another former Times reporter: "Everyone feels the burden to maintain the standards, to be serious, to not embarrass themselves. People feel overwhelmed by the institution...