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...women who pushed them to greatness. In the past year, photographer David Burnett has staked out various events for Olympic hopefuls in order to capture that time, and on these pages, we present his classic pictures, along with quotes from past Olympians. If nothing else, the photos buttress Pierre de Coubertin's century-old credo: "The important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, the important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle...
Soft. That word may be the root of Shimon Peres' galling defeat. Many voters mistrusted his New Middle East as just the feel-good visions of a naif. His attempt to buttress his security credentials by ordering a callous 17-day bombardment of Lebanon that killed as many as 200 civilians alienated many more Israeli-Arab voters than it earned him Jewish ones. Leah Rabin, wife of the Prime Minister slain by a right-wing extremist last November, criticized Peres' high-minded refusal to exploit the assassination for electoral advantage. He never responded in kind to Likud's pointed, simplistic...
...rational God of the Jewish Prophets. No, that was the wrong God, merely the creator of this world. Jesus was the Son of an unknown and greater God, who out of completely unreasonable kindness and love sent his Son to deliver humankind from the legalistic master of creation. To buttress his beliefs, Marcion purged the miasma of texts Christians used as Scripture to form a "new" testament. In his eyes, it would be composed of the Gospel of Luke--the only account he trusted--and parts of 10 Epistles of Paul. No Prophets, no Genesis...
Speaking to a crowd composed mostly of professors and graduate students, Sadik cited research to buttress the claims she made during the 30-minute address...
...both entertainment and electronics to the future of Sony. He hammered home the point again last week in a statement declaring that "there is a definite linkage of hardware and software. Our companies will work together to maximize our business opportunities. That's Sony's big advantage." To further buttress this notion, Idei said, the heads of Sony's U.S. film, music and electronics businesses will for the first time sit together on the executive committee that oversees the company's American operations...