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...life's quintessential winners, a man who has always achieved his goals but has never let ambition rule him. Blessed with a devoted wife and five adoring children, he's got a ravenous love for life, sensing that his success and happiness were pre-destined. "Not for a watch-tick have I doubted/God was on my side, was good to me/Even young and poor I knew it/People called it luck: it wasn...
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...Europe because facilities or competitors are not up to par in the U.S. Unheralded by their countrymen, they are idolized abroad, where youngsters collect their pictures on bubble-gum cards and the monied denizens of Alpine resorts ask for their autographs. A U.S. sports fan who can routinely tick off the starting outfield of the Kansas City Royals would be hard pressed to recognize America's heavy hitters at the Winter Olympics. Yet despite these drawbacks, a new generation of talented and dedicated U.S. athletes has emerged to perform to Olympic standards in the demanding and treacherous Winter Games...
Bush admits his new buoyancy is partly a deliberate tactic. "I used to think I should keep quiet and others would blow my horn," he explains with a wry grin. "But they didn't. So I will." Now Bush rarely misses a chance to tick off highlights of his career. One of the war's youngest pilots, winning his Navy wings at 18. Shot down over the Pacific and four hours adrift at sea before being rescued by a submarine crew. Three air medals and the DFC. Phi Beta Kappa at Yale. Creator of an independent off shore...
...July, he has regarded the leftist Afghanistan regime as vulnerable to the Muslim insurgents, and he has even enjoyed hinting, without saying so, that the U.S. might covertly aid those insurgents. To reporters and other visitors, he would recite statistics from secret cables that littered his desk. He could tick off the casualties the Soviets were suffering and would detail the number of coffins flown in to remove the dead...