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...should stop when I'm at my best? "They will never forget that great player," he said. "If you stop when you are playing poorly, people will remember that bad player." That's why I retired--for the first time--in 1974 after winning the 1970 World Cup for the third time with Brazil. I was 34 years...
Hong Kong Chief Secretary Donald Tsang was unpacking in his Washington hotel room when he heard a thunderous explosion and looked out the window to see black smoke rising from the Pentagon. It was, of course, the third terrorist plane, two others having already slammed into the World Trade Center. America was under siege. The day before, Tsang had draped a New York ferry with a banner advertising Hong Kong's attractions; within hours, that vessel would be carrying away the city's dead and injured...
...Well, I think we ought to pay attention to the rest of the world. The world has come to us, however involuntarily. When I was a young man, 40 years ago, I was sent to the Congo as a foreign correspondent for the Times, and then to Vietnam. I had to go very, very far away to find the tensions between different cultures and civilizations, between the Third World and the First World. And now, late in my life, it’s coming to our doorstep. Do I think we should be more interventionist right now? I think we?...
...World According to Gob, is, by their own admission, Gob’s most commercial effort to date. There is an extra “merchandise” insert in the sleeve of the CD—an appropriate visual preface to the cushy listening experience that one is about to abide. The album’s opening gesture, “For the Moment” reflects languishingly on past and unrequited love affairs: “But I cling to you for survival / And I know that you are my Bible.” Moderately distorted, muted, heavily...
...mayor. Rudolph W. Giuliani has been a most stirring and impressive leader in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the city’s World Trade Center. Both political leaders and private citizens have expressed great admiration for the mayor’s conduct in the weeks since the attack, and last week this page expressed its regret that the mayor will not be able to run for a third term in the upcoming election...