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...think there’s no better calling than public service. In college, sometimes I went back and forth and said maybe I should go strictly into business and do it through philanthropy. But I chose public service because it gave me a direct opportunity to have direct impact. This may sound silly, but I take pleasure in seeing that the streets are well paved, that we’re educating our kids—those things you don’t get on Wall Street...
...Ohio, John McCain had warned of the dangers of one-party rule and come up with a new character to fuel his campaign: Barack the Redistributor, a man "more interested in controlling wealth than in creating it." But Obama, while still hitting McCain on the economy, chose to launch a broader attack against his opponent, describing McCain as having an intellectual bankruptcy that has left him dependent on small change. "If you can't beat your opponent's ideas, you distort those ideas and maybe make some up," Obama said of McCain's tactics. "If you don't have...
...Cormack, one of the exhibition's curators, sees the wooden sculpture as crucial to understanding the Byzantines' obsession with ceremony and mystery, which he believes were efforts to offset a low-rumbling sense of insecurity. Byzantine figures and icons seem crudely rendered to us now because the artists carefully chose to make them generic and timeless. "If you give a figure a [personalized] resemblance," Cormack explains, "it becomes ephemeral, like its model...
Ultimately, Bush chose to constrain funding for the controversial practice, siding with the more conservative wing of his party that considers embryonic stem cell research immoral...
...point: if you're going to make a splash and spend $150,000 of the RNC fund's money, why not go for something a little more remarkable - dare I say stylish - like a pinstriped Ralph Lauren pantsuit, a spiffy Chanel jacket, or anything by Giorgio Armani? Michelle Obama chose wisely when she picked a floral-printed dress by Thakoon for the convention. Instead Palin opted for bland approximations of what she always wears, a kind of textbook, "safe" Washington insider combo of colorful jacket over black skirt. What a waste...