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...moment between two people in a stadium crowded with more than 13,000. But it proves that the pressure-cooker of epic sporting struggles - when time seems to slow down, and everything takes on a sharper resolution - is as intense as any life-or-death situation. You need to tell someone how you really feel...
Sitting in Row M, Seat 129, I took copious notes on this match and, if you want, I can ramble on with statistics. I can tell you about the contrast in styles of the contestants, about how Nadal is the tennis equivalent of a bruiser (case in point: he served 25% of the time to Federer's body), while Federer is a dancer (he chose that aggressive target only 4% of the time), and how Nadal managed to neutralize the greatest attacking forehand in tennis with the game's greatest backhand passing shot (Federer won only 60% of points when...
...Rich is a cautionary tale. Dennis is the first to tell you that you and your loved ones will pay a price for compulsively pursuing the almighty dollar (or the more valuable pound). The author, a lifetime bachelor, confides that his preoccupation with chasing money "led me into a lifestyle of narcotics, high-class whores, drink and consolatory debauchery...
Even as they yield in varying degrees to the demands of hovering parents, camps have all sorts of nice ways to tell us our kids need a break from our eager interest and exhausting expectations. Camps talk about building "independence," argue that having kids learn to solve their own problems and turn to peers and counselors for support is a key part of the experience. The implications are clear. They're lighting campfires, hiding and seeking, doing the spooky things campers do that feel wonderfully illicit if just because they involve getting dirtier than usual. Nothing to worry about...
...similar question, to which Obama replied that he had worn one after 9/11, but soon noticed, "people wearing a lapel pin but not acting very patriotic." He went on to explain, "I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest. Instead I'm going to try to tell the American people what I believe... and hopefully that will be a testimony to my patriotism." Naturally, a controversy erupted. When it came up again during the April debate, he made a similar point...