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When Kissinger dropped the line in his speech about his fifty-plus visits to China, the crowd issued a murmur of awe, as if to say, "what commitment to our country!" And yet, as the audience should have known, most of these visits were just business; Kissinger Associates, the firm he founded after leaving office, has helped a long list of multinationals enter China. Anthony J. F. O'Reilly, the ex-head of Heinz, a top baby food seller here, explained how Kissinger is especially valued in countries "where the principal players and the dynamics among the principal players...
...sparing the presidency a long and tawdry trial, Mazuz may end up damaging the Attorney General's office and his own reputation for rising above politics. In the Knesset, he is referred to, with both awe and fear, as "Super Manny." He avoids any show of favoritism; even his best friends don't know how he votes. Supporters and critics alike credit him with banning elected officials from doling out government jobs to party apparatchiks, a move that has reduced influence peddling. Friends say Mazuz, the son of poor but scholarly Tunisian immigrants, likens himself to a surgeon, cutting away...
...once wrote, and as your article revealed, he went about trying to outwit some hawks, who were always eager to wield force to resolve difficult issues of their time. I think that Kennedy would have been nauseated by the opening salvo of the Iraq war, the "shock and awe" that was such a vulgar, inhumane display of power...
...firefighters such as those who died recently in a Charleston, S.C., fire was a poetic and visceral description of emergency workers' tremendous bravery [July 2]. Sometimes chaos does win over science. Thank you for reminding us that heroes do their job every day. They deserve our thanks, respect and awe...
...trying to make out of her novel. They share screenplay credit for Evening, but even in the press kit you can sense her loathing for his work. He's sort of Henry James without the cojones and definitely the most constipated sensibility the literary community has lately been in awe of. But I suspect that the director, Lajos Koltai, a Hungarian, has even more to do with the film's inertness. One does not imagine him to be particularly expert in the manners, morals and habits of the American Protestant patriciate of a half-century ago. One also imagines...