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Actually, Obama's foreign policy is illustrative of his overall philosophy. It is comprehensive and complicated. In the case of Pakistan, for example, it involves diplomatic suasion, economic aid, military aid and the discreet use of military force. It will not yield results overnight. It isn't as dramatic or easily judged as an invasion. It may not, in the end, prove the right course. But, as with Obama's economic policies, it will take time to assess fairly. And so, patience, please! We can feed Obama to the Limbaugh lions if he fails ... Or maybe not, should he succeed...
Back in our high school days, FlyBy remembers that the cool kids used to use nicotine patches and gum just for the slight buzz. It was a lot more discreet than smoking, but it might as well have been a tattoo that said "I think I'm a badass!" Prediction: As people take advantage of free and easy access to nicotine, it won’t be long before “patches” supplant laundry room quarters as the currency of roommate transactions...
...20th century.”Produced and directed by Lemelson and edited by two-time Academy Award winner Pietro Scalia (“Black Hawk Down,” “JFK”), “40 Years of Silence” documents the systematic and discreet extermination of an estimated 500,000 to 1,000,000 Indonesians from 1965 to 1966. The killings, which targeted members of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI), a then-legal political entity, occurred under the direction of General Suharto at the time of his rise to power. Suharto eventually ascended...
...years her senior that began when she was still a teenager, her first trip to the Oscars, their breakup, her grief over his death in 1997, the making and release of Titanic, a list of every movie she turned down in its wake (she's too discreet to name them), the beginning of her first marriage and her bewilderment over what Hollywood wanted her to become. (Interested publishers are advised not even to bother asking.) Several years ago, worried about leaving the diaries behind as she globe-hopped from one job to the next, she locked them in a safety...
...considered debauched, and it played on those conventions. 10.FM: Speaking of debauchery, did you follow 18th-century standards of bawdiness or those of contemporary American novels with this novel? JL: Well the bawdiness is itself utterly 18th-century. In terms of modern convention, it’s probably very discreet. 11. FM: You have a lot of inside jokes and anachronisms. When you include an Edgar Allan Poe reference, for instance, is that just an inside joke that only a handful of readers would catch? JL: 18th-century fiction is itself very pastiche-y, there?...