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For the skier who recognizes the further possibilities his sport offers for learning how to learn, for overcoming fears and self-doubt, for gaining concentration and appreciation for nature, skiing becomes re-creation in the original sense of the word: an opportunity to discover something important about oneself and to learn skills that improve not only one’s skiing but the quality of one’s life.
Inner Skiing
W. Timothy Gallwey
The President had hoped that by putting the United States on a collision course with Germany, events would take over and lead to outright hostilities. But Hitler was still the master manipulator of events, and he kept turning his cheek. On the other side of the world the Japanese, who had been similarly provoked, had given every sign that they, too, would refuse to be drawn. They were here in Washington now, negotiating. As the talks dragged on, the Axis powers drew ever closer to world conquest. Roosevelt felt impotent. “He had no more tricks left,” Sherwood said afterward. “The bag from which he had pulled so many rabbits was empty.”
The Glory and the Dream
William Manchester
The victims of political killings were usually Russians, but one was American: Paul Klebnikov, the editor of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine. Klebnikov wrote a critical biography of Berezovsky using information supplied by FSB general Alexander Korzhakov, Yeltsin’s chief of security. At the time of his death, he was believed to be investigating the distribution of property in Moscow by the family of Luzhkov and the redivision of property in the telecommunications sphere. He was gunned down on the street on July 9, 2004.71
The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep
David Satter
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