Word: better
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Grant seems to think he's in a better movie, and a few times makes it better (though he was more relaxed, clever and ingratiating on The Daily Show). After his first night away from New York's 24-hour symphony of noise, Paul awakens to observe that Wyoming is "very quiet. I thought I could actually hear my cells dividing." His role as sinning husband is to confess and win his wife back, but Grant's function in the film is to provide a running commentary on Parker's cartoonishly tense career gal. ("A week ago," he tells...
...critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again ... who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly...
Vice President Joe Biden deserves one as well, for disagreement with the boss above and beyond the call of duty. Biden may have lost the Afghanistan argument, but he surely shaped it - for the better. I would also like to pause a moment to congratulate the Vice President on his gaffes. The political consultants' playbook may not have a place for a pol who admits there is a "30% chance we're going to get it wrong" on any issue, as Biden did on the President's economic plan, but the Vice President's arrant candor is a quality...
...legions of patriotic Iranians I met in the streets - and especially to those in prison now, like Mohammad Ali Abtahi, who was forced to "confess" to "crimes" he didn't commit in a ridiculous show trial. The Iranian people, unfailingly gracious to this foreigner, deserve a far better government than the one they have...
...bunch of old newspapers, I sought advice from former TIME editor Henry Muller, who picked Mikhail Gorbachev as the 1980s Person of the Decade. "The process is pretty simple. Pretend to consult a lot of people, and then make the decision yourself," he told me. I did him one better. I pretended to pretend to consult a lot of people and made the decision myself. (See TIME's 2009 Person of the Year: Ben Bernanke...