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...also a vehicle to redeem themselves from their sense of underachievement in world affairs. After all, Brazil is a country with the resources, economic potential and the sheer size to be a global power. But it isn't, and until such time as that moment arrives, futebol provides the proud Brazilians with their best chance to be taken seriously as undisputed world leaders. That's why failure to bring home the cup is almost akin to treason. Less so for the Germans, who take their dominance in stride, as a mere byproduct of the Prussian efficiency they are so proud...
...media will be crawling all over that story, and Amtrak will have nowhere to go. Americans will finally get the message: yes, folks, this is your national rail system, incapable of maintaining train service even on one of its only profitable routes. Isn't it pathetic? Aren't you proud...
Since the Getty, I've designed other buildings I'm very proud of--the Burda Museum in Baden-Baden, Germany; the Perry Street condominium towers that are rising right now in Manhattan on the Hudson River. But the Getty will always remain a touchstone for me. Anytime I feel depressed, all I have to do is go to the Getty, and I get undepressed...
...single World Cup match in nearly five decades, cruise into the semifinals of this year's tournament. An insular nation used to squatting on the international sidelines has discovered that the whole world is watching?and Korea can glare right back. "We've never been proud of our country before," says Sue Park, who runs her own public relations company in Seoul. "We've had so many political problems, corruption, wars, even being divided between North and South. But today, I am so proud to be Korean...
...only salvation, it appears, is in the continuing proliferation of boxed compilation sets. These productions are so expensively packaged (and priced), they're more like repositories for religious icons than for a few dozen tunes. If they were any bigger, you would be proud to use them as furniture; if they were smaller, you would wear them around your neck. But do you want to listen to them...