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The paths of glory
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell and other athletes who won medals at the recent Olympics and World championships have brought glory to their small island home which has acquired a reputation for extreme violence. Like Jimmy Cliff, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and other musicians, they showed that it is possible to achieve world-class status in a country in lower-level obscurity on most measures of human development...
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell and other athletes who won medals at the recent Olympics and World championships have brought glory to their small island home which has acquired a reputation for extreme violence. Like Jimmy Cliff, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and other musicians, they showed that it is possible to achieve world-class status in a country in lower-level obscurity on most measures of human development...
...more