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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Rarely have I read anything in Salon that was so far off the mark.
Here's what's really bugging the author: completing a marathon no longer makes you part of the running elite. People don't regard you as a different and superior species just because you have the t-shirt. The snob appeal is gone. Get over it.
As for the ludicrous implication that the slower runners aren't putting their full effort into the race: I once heard Bingham at a lecture, recounting a post-marathon dinner he had had with one of The Elite Kenyans. He told it like this:
"He asked me what my time was. I said, 'five and a half hours.' He looked at me and said, 'My God! How can you run for so long?'"
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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