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Death is always a part of a President's schedule. But there was something in Ronald Reagan's heart--and he had the ability to convey it--that seemed to give special comfort to the bereaved. When Challenger exploded as the country watched, national exhilaration was instantly plunged into despair for those young lives pinched out in the first seconds of their great adventure. Reagan read a wonderful text by speechwriter Peggy Noonan and lifted it into immortality: "The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we'll continue to follow them..." He may have understood better than...
...ahead even more aggressively than they did in the past," says Lösche, because the CDU, which favors more sweeping measures than Schröder's party does, will be able to use its legislative veto to bargain for deeper reforms. That kind of progress will be scant comfort for Schröder. "The SPD has experienced one of the bitterest defeats that I have seen in my political life," the stunned Chancellor told a press conference. "I have to carry this responsibility." Schröder said his big mistake was not adequately explaining his reform ideas...
...What's most important: quality, comfort or looks...
...tight race between quality and looks. If a shoe designer can manage both, great. Comfort is, in my life, secondary...
...places left in our society where we can agree, where we're not debating and fighting with each other," he says. This kind of universal loss transcends divisions established by politics or religion, he adds, and unites us in our grief. We've all experienced this strange comfort: the moment you hear about a disaster like this one, you know instinctively there are millions of people sharing the same emotion...