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...habits die hard. Temptation is strong. We are weak. We've got plenty of gurus, talk-show hosts and celebrity spokespeople badgering us to save energy, lose weight and live within our means, but we're still addicted to oil, junk food and debt. It's fair to ask whether we're even capable of changing...
Sipping tea in another Burmese town, I listened as a companion recited his favorite line from John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address: "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." Sitting between us was a shy young man who practiced this new English sentence over and over, savoring Kennedy's rhetorical flourish. The words had a strange quality in Burma, a place where people don't expect their country to do much of anything for them. But the young student was willing to take up Kennedy's challenge...
...believe. What is in the president’s power, however, is to challenge those who listen to him—but Obama is still too hesitant to do so. During a recent press conference, for example, he essentially dismissed a question from NBC correspondent Chuck Todd. Todd asked why, if past presidents had had the power to call for some form of sacrifice, Obama did not ask for something specific now, especially since he purports to seek a “new era of responsibility...
...asked to pay more when we pollute, as if the crisis has made us incapable of hearing or accepting that some of our habits need an immediate change. Instances like this open a space for those in positions of authority to make reasonable requests of the American people. Perhaps the president knows that he cannot ask us for this much. I would still welcome it if he boldly tried...
...heard, from the Negro section, some Hallelujahs and a Holy Deliverer. I’m sure the cries were cried for The Creator but Ezekiel seemed to think they could be for us, too. He turned to his people, just halfway, still not sure if he should smile or ask forgiveness.Sooner than I’d’ve thought came jerks and pants from the white folks. Usually I’d feel them break after I’d passed, but a few times they’d bubble up in front of me: heads turning round...