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On Bill O'Reilly scandal

“This is just another example of the liberal media's bias against self-destructive, narcissistic, screaming sexist assholes."

“"Just once, I'd like to hear about a sex scandal with honest-to-God penetration."

(The Onion)

Red Sox' Anguish and Yankees' Mystique and Aura Dissolve in Game 7 (NYTimes)

Let me raise my virtual beer and chug 'em for Boston.  Respect.

“Boston blew away decades of defeat with four sweet swings. Believe it, New England, the Red Sox are in the World Series. And they got there with the most unbelievable comeback of all, shaming the New York Yankees, the Evil Empire to the south. Johnny Damon had a grand slam and drove in six and Derek Lowe pitched six innings of one-hit baseball as the Red Sox completed the most stunning comeback in playoff history with a 10-3 win over the Yankees in Game 7.”

GREATEST COMEBACK IN BASEBALL HISTORY !!!

“Having decided to forsake .ws I seem to find myself in search of the next sunrise. Muito obrigado para voce e digidy para no www.nomadlife.org. I just want to know how the effort is going, if you needed help of any sort, what your visions are for this website and when we can hope to start blogging.

Transparency International has the answer.

“Corruption in large-scale public projects is a daunting obstacle to sustainable development, and results in a major loss of public funds needed for education, healthcare and poverty alleviation, both in developed and developing countries,” said Transparency International (TI) Chairman Peter Eigen today at the launch of the TI Corruption Perceptions Index 2004.
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“There is nothing more painful than watching a comedian turn self-righteous. Unless of course, the comedian is lashing out at smug and self-serving television-news personalities. Jon Stewart could not resist a last dig at CNN's "Crossfire" during his monologue on Comedy Central on Monday night . "They said I wasn't being funny," the star of "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" said, rolling his eyes expressively. "And I said to them: 'I know that. But tomorrow I will go back to being funny," Mr. Stewart said, adding that their show would still be bad, although he used a more vulgar expression. “

(New York Times)

”Courage is like a muscle. The more we exercise it, the stronger it gets. I sometimes worry that our collective courage is growing weaker from disuse. We don't demand it from our leaders, and our leaders don't demand it from us. The courage deficit is both our problem and our fault. As a result, too many leaders in the public and private sectors lack the courage necessary to honor their obligations to others and to uphold the essential values of leadership. Often, they display a startling lack of accountability for their mistakes and a desire to put their own self-interest above the common good.

That means trouble for us all, because courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion, and humility. In short, leaders who lack courage aren't leaders.” (Fast Company)

or like the Italian says it: “couraggio”.

”RW: When you were doing marathons, did you follow a fairly strict training regimen, or did you just kind of make up your own?
JE: It was strict in the sense that I always tried to run at least an hour a day. I never missed more than one day a week, usually none. As I got closer to the marathon date, I would try to do longer training runs, at least 2 or 3-hour runs.

RW: Those long runs are the key. So how were the marathons themselves?
JE: I ran too fast in the beginning, almost every time.

RW: Sounds familiar.
JE: And then when I'd get to 17 or 18 miles, I would slow down. But like most people, when I got to about 18, 19, 20 miles, right in that range, it was a remarkable difference.

RW: The Wall.
JE: Yeah. The Wall really happens.

RW: So how do you get through that?
JE: It's all in your head. Finishing a marathon's in your head.

RW: When you were doing marathons, did you follow a fairly strict training regimen, or did you just kind of make up your own?
JE: It was strict in the sense that I always tried to run at least an hour a day. I never missed more than one day a week, usually none. As I got closer to the marathon date, I would try to do longer training runs, at least 2 or 3-hour runs. “

(Runner's World)

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”China's rise is no longer a matter of the future. It is already the fourth largest economy in the world, and it is growing at three to four times the rate of the first three. It is now the world's largest importer and exporter of many commodities, manufactured products and agricultural goods. It will soon be one of the largest exporters of capital, buying companies across the globe.

India is growing with impressive resilience and determination. And because of its size, it adds another huge weight to the Asian balance. East Asia has now been in a long boom for over 30 years. Asians are also the world's biggest savers, and their savings have financed the deficit spending of the United States. While there may be temporary reversals for a year or two, the long-term trend is clear.” (Fareed Zakaria)