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...though, the speech was more conciliatory than confrontational. Rafsanjani made several nods to opposition sentiment, acknowledging that the events of recent weeks constituted a "crisis" for the Islamic Republic. He also used strong terms to deplore the violence that broke out. But he praised the government's preparations for the election and said it occurred in an atmosphere of "healthy competition" and "unprecedented freedom...
...started something on Twitter called the "F___ It List," a series of things you don't want to do before you die. What's on it? Well, I almost broke one of them, which was, "See the reunited Phish." I went to Bonnaroo and they were performing, but I was fortunate not to have to see them play...
...working a crowd of working-class Australians near Perth, Rudd isn't as stiff as he's sometimes portrayed. In moments of crisis, his emotions resonate. When wildfires, some sparked by arsonists, ravaged drought-ridden Victoria earlier this year, killing more than 170 people, Rudd broke down on camera, momentarily speechless as he blinked back tears. Angrily, he equated arson with "mass murder." And he knows how to combat bureaucratic timidity with the power of grand gestures. Two of his first actions after taking office were making a landmark apology to Aborigines who were essentially stolen as children from their...
...When [McNamara] left, he was already a very sick, disheartened, and dispirited person, so much so that at his last news conference...he broke down in tears, in front of the President and the cameras," said Marvin L. Kalb, a Kennedy School professor who, as a former journalist, knew McNamara personally. "It was a sad thing to observe, for somebody who was so confident that he knew how to run the war, to leave in tears and in full awareness that he had failed...
...broke me down," said Cynthia Moutin, 43, from Fremont, Calif. "When Paris spoke, when she called him 'Daddy' - that was the last straw...