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Takeru Kobayashi, handicapped by wisdom tooth surgery and an arthritic jaw, seemed to match Joey Chestnut dog for dog until the end, when he appeared to regurgitate a couple of them. Both men broke the world record of 59, but when the July 4 competition was over, Chestnut was proclaimed the new champion of Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest on Coney Island, with a total of 66. Kobayashi was credited with...
...White House, Bush backers were quick to try to soften any public relations damage the decision might cause. They claimed Solomonic wisdom had been applied to a thorny case, leaving untouched the verdict while sparing a former loyalist the "excessive" penalty of time in the slammer. Bush's lengthy written statement - unnecessary given the absolute authority he has under the Constitution to grant clemency - claimed respect for the verdict and the jury. "There'd been a lot of questions about intervening at points along the way," said one senior White House official, "And the President had always been clear that...
...Folk wisdom holds that a change is as good as a rest. But as one Prime Minister departs and another takes office in Britain, a merciless salvo of changes is leaving some folk in Westminster praying for a rest. Civil servants have found themselves scurrying at cartoon speeds to keep the government ticking over, while politicians are distracted by concerns over the future - their own and the country...
...still practice Buddhism? If so, how has it helped you? -Maike Lehmann KÖNIGSFELD, GERMANYI have been chanting for 24 years. It has brought me a lot of strength and wisdom in the sense that even in the most dire times, I didn't get lost. I knew that if I wanted to survive, it wasn't about healing or trying to forget. It was about how I could use my life to answer what had happened to us. In many ways, it saved my life...
...ambitious new goal or two, especially at a moment when 70% of the public thinks the country is moving in the wrong direction. The problem is, politicians hate having to talk about anything remotely adventurous in the midst of an campaign. They prefer safe recitations of conventional wisdom: We need to do something about government waste... the tax code... the health-care system. If you actually make a bold promise-health care for all, for example-you will be asked for specifics. If you give specifics, as Bill Bradley did when he proposed universal care in 1999, your opponents...