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...courageous, diligent, intelligent, hard-working, a good linguist, "good at chairing a meeting," a "very great leader." Hillary? Tough, determined, thin and lithe, "bags and bags of energy." And what did Band think now of the - to modern ears - hilariously measured tones with which Hunt described the moment of triumph? Oh, said Band, all climbers are stoics. They have to be, for climbing can be "somewhat callous and barbaric. It's a dangerous sport." Besides, he added quietly, "it was a different world...
...Sept. 11, 2001. Several key leaders of al-Qaeda, the network headed by Osama bin Laden that carried out the Sept. 11 attacks, had been arrested. Just days before the bombings in Riyadh, President Bush stood on the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln to bask in his Iraq triumph and declared, "The war on terror is not over, yet it is not endless. We do not know the day of final victory, but we have seen the turning of the tide...
This was before the days of the flacks and handlers whose job it is to make athletes talk like robots. With owner George Steinbrenner fanning the flames, the Yankees butted heads in the ugliest, most public manner imaginable, then pulled it together to triumph over the hated Red Sox in a one-day tie-breaker play-off that remains one of the most beautiful, jewel-like ball games ever played. Kahn's glittering group portrait paints the Yanks as both goats and heroes, and they are vividly, engagingly, enragingly human in both roles. Kahn is the author of The Boys...
...Klein's column was headlined "Can Bush Ride His Triumph into 2004?" [IN THE ARENA, April 28]. Oh, puh-leeze! It was President Clinton and his Secretary of Defense William Cohen who were responsible for cultivating our effective military. Our young men and women made it work. We taxpayers paid for it. All Bush did was send the troops off on a questionable adventure. The war was hardly "his" triumph. If Bush wants to win in 2004, he needs to fix the economy. BOB FORSTER Nehalem...
...victory for the varsity eights was not the only triumph for the Black and White...