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...months earlier and he was planning on attending my concert the following day. We had coffee that afternoon and became inseparable friends. Edward Said did not fit into any single category. He was the very essence of human nature because he understood its contradictions. He was both a fighter and a compassionate defender. A man of logic and passion. An artist and a critic. A visionary of the future with an understanding of tradition. He fought for Palestinian rights while understanding Jewish suffering, and did not see this posture as a paradox. We founded the West-East Divan...
...fighter is sucker punched by fate, as the characters in many Cash songs are, then the heroic thing is to punch back. Cash, as a man and an artist, had the strength to see that bad times may be not a curse but a challenge. His biggest pop hit, the Shel Silverstein song A Boy Named Sue, might be considered comic frivolity for a man whose voice and choice of material more typically dealt in darkness. But the story of a man searching out the father who gave him a girl's name has its own Cashian moral...
...pioneering Mercury mission, who became heroes before they even lofted skyward, the identity of only two of China's 14 taikongyuan, or "space pilots," has been released. All that ordinary Chinese know about them is they're each about 1.7 m tall, weigh 65 kg and served as jet-fighter test pilots who "are No. 1 in physical status and psychological quality," according to statements by senior space official Zhang Houying...
...Klein masterfully laid out the explanation of why the worthwhile Teach for America organization was defunded by the Federal Government's AmeriCorps program [IN THE ARENA, Aug. 25]. Limited resources plague even the richest nation in the world. When we insist on funding items like the F-22 Raptor fighter jet and a missile-defense shield with billions upon billions of dollars, we crowd out money for valuable things like education and social programs. President Eisenhower, a five-star general, warned us to increase our scrutiny of defense spending. Nonetheless, we find ourselves with a $400 billion defense budget. Neither...
PRINCE BANDAR Ambassador to the U.S. Son of Prince Sultan, he received fighter pilot training in the U.S. and Britain...