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...politics, the things that cause most trouble don't change, or change slowly. It took 85 years from Churchill's condescending comments for the villages of Fermanagh and Tyrone to be subject to a government which (just about) calmed political passions to a whisper. If they are to crack the most difficult problems, Obama should remind himself, leaders need patience. They must never, never, never, give up. That was Churchill...
Burt (John Krasinski) and Verona (Maya Rudolph) are the ideal, bright, loving twosome. He has the playfulness of a Muppet; she is quieter, more solid, earth-rooted like a blossoming fruit tree. A couple since college, and now 33, they haven't run out of things to whisper to each other, secrets and aspirations to share. Their conversations are intimate, caring, leavened with sprung rhythms of cuddly wit. And now that Verona is six months pregnant with their first child, they've started to worry about their, and its, place in the world. (See TIME's Summer Arts Preview...
Pomp and circumstance has quieted to a whisper and graduation hats no longer silhouette the sky. Family and friends join together in restaurants for celebratory feasts and at one dinner gathering in Faneuil Hall’s Union Oyster House, the seemingly impossible happens. The ink still wet on their diplomas, two friends–the potential leaders of our future–share in a dialogue alongside several visionaries of centuries past. The illustrious guests, graduates from schools of philosophy and schools of hard knocks, contemplate tomorrow while still baffled by today...
...lawyers branded Yettaw a "wretched American." Inside the country, it can be easy to spot the foreign idealists masquerading as, say, tourists or teachers, who have made it their mission to change Burma. They whisper about regime change and seethe with political indignation. They talk about signature campaigns or the latest effort to get foreign parliamentarians to condemn the Burmese regime's odious behavior...
...Logic and Number Theory”—turned out to be on the second floor of something called Sever and have a total of three students. You have no idea why this was on the list, because the professor speaks in a nervous, high-pitched whisper and is talking about “Well-Orderings.” You have no idea what these are. You tried taking notes for about six minutes before giving up and spending the remainder of the time nodding significantly at appropriate intervals. When you got up to leave after 30 minutes...