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...LADY AND THE TIGER...
...single mom and professional boxer from Detroit flunked her audition. The show went with her backstage, with her adorable young son, as she told her life story. Her husband, a corrections officer, was murdered a few years before. She had taken up boxing--her ring name is "Lady Tiger"--because you can't raise a kid on waitress money. Her monologue went from defiance ("You'll see my album. Lady Tiger don't stop") to despair ("You ain't going nowhere in Detroit. Nowhere") to dignified resolve for her son's sake ("We're never going to quit...
...Lady Tiger setting a bad example for her son on national TV? Or setting a good example by dreaming, persevering and being proud? American Idol didn't say. It didn't nudge us to laugh at her or prod us to cry for her. In about two minutes, it just told a quintessentially American story of ambition and desperation and shrinking options, and it left the judgment to us. That's unsettling. That's heartbreaking. And the reality is, that's great TV. --Reported by Amy Lennard Goehner/New York, Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles and Adam Pitluk/Dallas
...Just about everyone seems to be wondering how deep is the Tigers' desire for peace. Sept. 11 was a turning point: the U.S. had already declared the LTTE a terrorist organization, and the group has clearly decided that pursuing a deal is better than becoming a target like al-Qaeda. Some in Colombo speculate that Tiger supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran may be losing the fighting spirit, or that he's worried about the future of his teenage son. In the past, the LTTE has used truces to rearm and train, which is disturbing. And yet none of the previous cease-fires...
...step - and his mouth," says one Moscow newspaper editor. In September 2001, when Namedni ruled the airwaves, the newspaper Izvestia asked Parfyonov: "What if the views of those who are calling the shots do not coincide with yours?" Parfyonov answered, "Let's wait to get scared until the tiger comes out of the jungle." Well, it did, and it bites...