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...when you can say 'That's so true,' you're transcending the critique," Rappoport says, pointing out that one person who seems to truly believe we should just try to understand ourselves and move on is running for President. "Speaking of transcendence," he notes, "that's part of the appeal of Barack Obama. He makes us think we can set aside these hang-ups, not by resolving them, just by getting past them and rising above them...
...soccer team’s Lizzy Nichols, in her usual uncomplicated manner, when asked to describe her style of play. Yet her inclusion in the sports pages, it would appear, bucks a general trend.As aesthetically attractive as soccer is as a spectacle, one of the reasons for its enduring appeal is its simplicity. Yet despite this, players encapsulating this approach are the ones often overlooked by the majority of people. Read the soccer coverage in newspapers—the emphasis tends to be on the flamboyance of attacking midfielders and the glory of the goal-scorers, rather than those players...
...don’t think anyone came for the food,” Rohr said. “But I think in terms of the overall goal and feeling of the event, it went really well.” Joselow also said that the dinner was intended to appeal to students who may not regularly celebrate Shabbat. “We were trying to engage Jewish students in an aspect of Jewish life that they might not otherwise be involved in,” Joselow said. Professor Tal D. Ben-Shahar, professor of the popular class Psychology...
...elections, denouncing the M.D.C. for prematurely announcing their results, railing against bloody colonial imperialism) while at the same time keeping an iron grip on power (sanctioning vote-rigging, beating up Tsvangirai and others, as they did last year, and, in Matabeleland in the 1980s, committing mass murder). Hence its appeal to Zimbabwean patriots to vote for Mugabe and against Western imperialism, while all but ignoring the plight of a people enduring an economic collapse that is only hinted at by the numbers: more than 100,000% inflation and 80% unemployment. The most recent example of this duality came...
...when a guy like Heston - and, really, there was no guy like Heston - walks onto a set, people line up to put him in majestic roles. Cecil B. De Mille saw his appeal immediately, casting him as the circus owner in the Oscar-winning The Greatest Show on Earth, then giving him the 31-year-old the role of Moses, where Heston, with an old man's beard and a young athlete's energy, holds his staff above his head, parts the waters of the Red Sea and beckons the Israelites to walk on through. That last...