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...professional with no children--and the expanding ranks of baby boomers who can afford a two-seater now that their kids have grown up. Though sports-car sales account for just 1% of total vehicle spending, automakers view the eye-catching cars as a vital way to give a gleam to their brands, enhancing the image of an otherwise utilitarian fleet and luring shoppers into showrooms. Done right, two-seaters make money too. Outfitted with luxury fixings, they often yield hefty profit margins...
...even implies an obscure promise of martyrdom--not normally the journalist's line of work. Ask the young roomful, instead, whether they would be willing to risk their lives to cover extreme situations in faraway places and report the truth, and the best in the room will get a gleam in their eyes--a little ignition of trench-coat wanderlust, their minds flickering in black and white for a moment, a few frames of '30s movies. Daniel Pearl, I gather, had the gleam. A sheer avidity to know things is the most endearing trait of any journalist. Long...
...even implies an obscure promise of martyrdom - not normally the journalist's line of work. Ask the young roomful, instead, whether they would be willing to risk their lives to cover extreme situations in faraway places and report the truth, and the best in the room will get a gleam in their eyes - a little ignition of trench-coat wanderlust, their minds flickering in black and white for a moment, a few frames of '30s movies. Daniel Pearl, I gather, had the gleam. A sheer avidity to know things is the most endearing trait of any journalist. Long...
...Afghans are willing to wait until the bombs fall before they dash to safety. The border crossing at Chaman, for one, could hardly be in a more inhospitable place. On one side lies Afghanistan, where the hazy, distant hills gleam strangely, as if the earth were glazed by the heat from Pakistan's 1998 nuclear test on its side of the border. There are only a scattering of thorny shrubs on the landscape. A few Pakistani frontier guards use stubby whips to hold back a tide of gaudily painted trucks, donkey carts loaded with gnarled metal scraps (about all that...
...Beautiful, for Patriots' dream, that sees beyond the years Thine Alabaster cities gleam undimmed by human tears...