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...have climbed to the top of the greasy pole," he said when he became Prime Minister, and this series is a capsule history of that slippery ascent. He was able to enter politics only because his father had fought with his synagogue and had had his children baptized as Christians. Disraeli's enemies never forgot his origin, however, and when he was finally elected to Parliament, he was hooted down when he tried to speak. "The time will come when you will hear me," he responded. It was a prediction he made come true through force of will...
...Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement," wrote Jacques Charles after making man's first ascent by hydrogen balloon in 1783. "It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss...
PREPARATIONS FOR THE ASCENT by Gilbert Rogin
...sixth-seeded Big Red began its surprising ascent by defeating the Crimson, 9-3, in both team's opening match Friday night...
...ascent to this higher consciousness demands the abandonment of an "ego sense of identification," Mahan Singh says. One's consciousness can be seen as analogous to the equation E=mc2, "with the body as the equal sign. You can convert yourself to light or to the gross physical body," he adds...