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...Cultural decline is not inevitable," Gioia concludes. "While we cannot be complacent, we can surely pause to celebrate our common success." Unfortunately, that self-congratulatory tone spoils the entire report and overshadows its larger point - that more Americans reading is a good thing, regardless of whether the NEA made them...
...only thing I wish I could figure out is how I got misunderstood regarding the type of person I really am and what I accomplished...Just because I believed in what I was doing on the field and dedicated myself to playing the game, does that mean I'm cocky? Does that mean I'm arrogant? People who played against me called me cocky, but my teammates didn't. I brought attention, fear. I wanted to beat you in the worst way. If that made me cocky, so be it." - On his reputation, Baseball Digest...
Last summer, a judge sent the former mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, to jail for violating his bail. How was that case different from Madoff's? In that case, Kilpatrick traveled to Canada. International travel is about the most threatening thing a defendant can do to raise a judge's inference that he is a risk for flight. So that really raised the radar of the judge. What's more, Kilpatrick got the order not to travel out of the Detroit area in his criminal case. In this case, the order that Madoff was accused of violating...
...think we can look at the families of the 3,000 people who died in the eye and say that we should not have attacked earlier and thereby disrupted that thing from happening - I think we should have." - On whether or not the U.S. should have launched more - and more violent - pre-9/11 attacks against al Qaeda in Afghanistan (February 2002 interview with Time...
...only thing that is certain is that every symbol of Hamas' rule in Gaza, every government building, police station and office block, has been replaced by a very large hole. It will take years for Hamas to rebuild Gaza's infrastructure and to offer basic services to the war-dazed 1.5 million Palestinians inside the sealed-off territory...