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...another reason to focus - perhaps the hardest for the Obama team to accept - is that this is a rookie White House still finding its legs. That's not criticism. It's just a fact. Obama defended his vast agenda by citing John F. Kennedy, who didn't have the luxury of choosing between civil rights and a mission to the moon. But history shows that seven weeks after being sworn in, Kennedy was bumbling his way toward the Bay of Pigs. It takes time to get good at the presidency...
...painfully aware that I have deeply hurt many, many people, including the members of my family, my closest friends, business associates and the thousands of clients who gave me their money. I cannot adequately express how sorry I am for what I have done. I am here today to accept responsibility for my crimes by pleading guilty and, with this plea allocution, explain the means by which I carried out and concealed my fraud...
...genre, struggles with the stigma of being a monetized art form—one which caters exclusively to a client’s vision rather than the artist’s. This deeply engrained Romantic model of the artist and his muse might result in a public reluctance to accept video game music as a worthy pursuit.“There’s a degree of compromise there, and I think anyone who tells you there is no compromise is lying,” Lin says. “But working within constraints isn’t necessarily...
...Although Sinn Fein is firmly wedded to the political process, some Republicans still accept the old twin-track approach of combining the bullet and the ballot. "I recognize the Irish people have an absolute right to take up arms against British rule," says Richard Walsh, spokesman for one such party, Republican Sinn Fein. Walsh says support for the dissidents is growing. "It's inevitable that more people are becoming disillusioned with the Provisionals. They've been lying to their own people for decades now. The traditional base [is] deserting them ever since they decided to recognize the British state...
...found it very difficult to accept their loss," says William Chislett, author of several books on Spain. "They thought the Socialists were able to 'rob' the election because of the bombings. And the Socialists think they won because the Spanish people realized that the PP - their government - wasn't telling them the truth...