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...person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious. You grew up vigilant because it’s a divided society. My poetry on the whole was earth-hugging, but then I began to look up rather than keep down. I think it had to do with a sense that the marvelous was as permissible as the matter-of-fact in poetry. That line is from a poem called “The Gravel Walks,” which is about heavy work—wheeling barrows of gravel—but also the paradoxical sense of lightness when you?...
Allston residents responded with cautious approval to proposals presented by the City of Boston to revitalize Barry’s Corner and Holton Street Corridor, two key tracts of land in Allston that have stood underdeveloped for decades, at last night’s North-Allston Brighton Community-Wide Plan meeting...
...Despite optimism in some corners, however, universities are cautious as they survey the economic horizon. "In a huge downturn, everybody suffers immensely," says Grinnell President Russell Osgood. "Those that are a little bit better off will just be cushioned a little bit better at the front...
...presidential nominees have cultivated reputations as change agents and truth tellers, but their tepid, hedged support for the emergency package didn't look reassuring either. Obama has taken a cautious and detached approach, articulating principles--transparency, oversight, limits on golden parachutes, protections for taxpayers and homeowners--but mostly staying out of the way. He didn't really act like a leader, but he doesn't hold a leadership position, and so far voters seem to appreciate his cool response. While Washington Mutual and Wachovia were disappearing and investment banks were going extinct overnight, Obama was pulling ahead in the polls...
Obama, meanwhile, got to test his Unified Theory of Change We Can Believe In. His reserved, backstage approach risked looking cautious and calculating in its own way. But he has been arguing that the only way anything will change is if voters change the terms of the whole transaction and force government to listen to them and not just the lobbyists whispering in their ears. Just as this campaign has focused attention on electoral politics as never before, so did this crisis draw all eyes to Washington and how it works - and no one much liked what they...