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...Still, it was hard not to admire the speech. The verbal miscues for which the President is known seemed, for the most part, absent. The speech?s simple and plain-spoken language served him better than the loftier rhetoric of, say, his inaugural address or his stem-cell decision talk. He seemed emotional but steady, confident but not cocky. "This will not be an age of terror," was simple and surefooted. His paeans to bipartisanship were obvious but also necessary and well done...
Would everybody shout? There is a huge difference between being America's best preacher and America's Preacher, Graham's unofficial title for decades. In fact, that category may have evaporated, given today's cultural landscape and absent Graham's singular attributes. He is a white man in a country that understood itself, myopically, as white. He is a Protestant in a nation that was more aware of its Protestant roots than its growing diversity. A Baptist, he preaches a Gospel message so pure as to elude denominational criticism. He is expert at minimizing personal or philosophical particularities that would...
...someone has turned his light way down. People who like the Administration's foreign policy credit it to Bush, not Powell. People who don't, wonder where he is. Leaders abroad are not certain he is the definitive voice of America. A former Secretary of State says Powell seems absent from the big issues of the day. Another former top diplomat, when asked to provide an adjective for the phrase "Colin Powell is a 'blank' Secretary of State," says, "Yes, he is." A senior official in the Bush Administration who has worked with Powell for three Presidents in three agencies...
...someone has turned his light way down. People who like the Administration's foreign policy credit it to Bush, not Powell. People who don't, wonder where he is. Leaders abroad are not certain he is the definitive voice of America. A former Secretary of State says Powell seems absent from the big issues of the day. Another former top diplomat, when asked to provide an adjective for the phrase "Colin Powell is a 'blank' Secretary of State," says, "Yes, he is." A senior official in the Bush Administration who has worked with Powell for three Presidents in three agencies...
Every one of these tabloid-TV press conferences is good for the sport. And despite the fact that some lessons in sportsmanship may go absent, these are great role models for young women. This is the first women's sport in the U.S. to become more popular than its male counterpart that doesn't involve doing pretty leaps on a mat or an ice rink. It's far better to be filled with arrogance and aloofness and tension than to flash a saccharine Dorothy Hamill smile. If people turn to sports for real-time Aristotelian catharsis, then perhaps the women...