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Powell: This is not foreign to me. I've been in the public eye for eight years. So this doesn't trouble me. I'm used to being misunderstood, taken out of context, attacked, so it's something I can endure. But there are two things that are at work here. One, that notwithstanding that I'm already a public figure, I'm still a very private person, and my family is a private existence. We live quiet and private lives. So this would be a change in the life of my family unlike anything we have ever experienced before...
...early emphasis of the Kennedy School, understandably was on the American economy. Internationally, most [work] was done in a Cold War context," says Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Emeritus Raymond Vernon, a friend of Nye for more than 25 years. "But that's over now, and now we confront a world that is experimenting in all sorts of variants of social safety nets, health care, business-government relations. And each of them is a sort of laboratory...
...suburbs have been particularly hard on women with young children. In the typical hunter-gatherer village, mothers can reconcile a homelife with a work life fairly gracefully, and in a richly social context. When they gather food, their children stay either with them or with aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins or lifelong friends. When they're back at the village, child care is a mostly public task--extensively social, even communal. The anthropologist Marjorie Shostak wrote of life in an African hunter-gatherer village, "The isolated mother burdened with bored small children is not a scene that has parallels in !Kung...
...first phrases, following the famous horn solo, did not contain the emphasis usually accorded to them; in the context of historical performances, they appeared routine. But momentousness was, in general, not his goal. The defining trait of Ax's playing on Saturday was a striking immediacy. Rather than using time to create intense emotional drama, as Sviatoslav Richter did in his landmark 1960 performance with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Erich Leinsdorg, Ax manifested an incessant urge to build in an efficient and almost austere manner...
Newspapers have the space to place any situation, particularly this one, in context. Print journalists are now allowed to reason away diplomatic ineptitude as a consequence of this conflict's complexity. They explain who holds what territory and delve into the history books to note who has held that territory before. The main purpose of a newspaper, after all, is to rationalize even the most outrageous of events, fit them neatly into columns and write a first draft of that puzzle called history...