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...Bush did more than just free up money. In August 2001 he addressed the issue in one of the most morally serious speeches ever delivered by a U.S. President. Political speeches are generally constructed - I know; I used to write them - so that facts are stacked from the very beginning to lead you inexorably to the foregone conclusion. In contrast, Bush's nationally televised address presented both sides of the question with such fairness and respect that three-quarters of the way through the speech you found yourself without any idea where the President would come...
...their publications reach about 60% of Germans. The Süddeutsche Zeitung announced it too was going back to the old system, joining the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, which switched back four years ago. "I don't think it would be a very good idea to have two systems of writing in this society," says Ludwig M. Eichinger, director of the Institute for German Language. Günter Grass has come out against the reforms, and many parents haven't bothered to learn the new rules. Susan Haselbach, 42, a Berliner with three school-age children, admits that "many...
...this column on venerable pop culture - what I call classic - I usually write about people who not only helped define an earlier era but were moderately famous. Elvis and Astaire, Dr. Seuss and Lenny Bruce. By the standard of fame, Phyllis Jenkins doesn?t exactly qualify. Her name doesn?t appear on many Websites; her exploits don?t grace nearly as many biographies and memoirs as they should. Her death earlier this year occasioned an admiring, admirable obituary in the New York Sun, but the New York Times didn?t acknowledge her demise...
...first two [parts of the paper] constitute the ‘expository’ part of my paper: the mathematics was known before, and my contribution was only to write about them in a manner that the readers of this journal (typically at or above the level of math majors at an average American college) would find comprehensible and appealing,” Elkies wrote. “The third is also ‘research,’ in that this connection of Fourier series with up-down permutations and the Euler formulas was not known before...
...Szymanski, who accepted a $700,000 signing bonus to join the Cincinnati Reds organization. He then threw in some classically Princetonian quip about that amount of money not fitting in a financial aid package that garnered a few laughs but didn’t move me enough to write down...