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...patriotism and perhaps pity from men who, knowing what the job entails, are uniquely positioned to help. Barack Obama has an interesting array of predecessors to choose from: Jimmy Carter, the acclaimed humanitarian who has seemed at times to delight in tormenting his successors; Bill Clinton, whose own chapter in history has some extra footnotes now with Obama's win; and two Presidents named Bush, one with a more recent feel for just how crushing the job will be, the other with perhaps more useful advice in how to manage...
...which was, at the time, beginning its transformation from a medieval town to a modern capital of the arts—immerse the reader in the landscape Liebniz came to love. Moreover, Nadler connects the architectural elegance to the philosophical eloquence that developed there. He opens one chapter with a vision of the Petit Pont, a bridge between the Left Bank and the Île de la Cité: “It is a nondescript bridge, nothing like the magnificent Pont Neuf that runs all the way across the narrow west end of the island and over...
...saying it has a beginning, a middle and an end. We always cover that story, and this year was no exception. In fact, in October 2006--more than two years before Election Day and four months before Barack Obama even declared he was running--we forecast the final chapter: Joe Klein's prescient cover story, "Why Barack Obama Could Be the Next President...
...couldn’t be more excited—for him, for the country for the world,” said Tribe just after a conversation with Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill. “I think this is a great moment in American history, and a new chapter is about to begin...
...Others think differently. "We are going to have a back-to-basics urge, and that is going to be exactly the wrong thing," says David Frum, who works at the American Enterprise Institute, one of several brain trusts of conservative thought. "The Reagan chapter is a finished chapter." To Frum's thinking, the issues that built the Reagan coalition - crime, welfare, taxes and the Cold War - have faded. Better now to draft policies that address the new concerns of the middle class: economic stagnation, environmental protection and health-care reform. "It's pretty hard to go back...