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...Middle East. But diplomacy isn't a spigot you turn on and off; it is a tepid stream of meetings and consultations. It is not for those with attention-deficit disorder; it requires patient, intensive listening to oft-repeated positions and grievances, the eternal search for a comma that will appease both sides. For that reason alone, it would be wonderful to have a President with lots of stamps in his or her passport or a President who speaks a foreign language fluently or has lived overseas or has spent time in the military or in negotiations with foreign leaders...
...David Cameron: We have. [Senator] John McCain came to our conference and I admire him a great deal. Lots of things we won't agree about on every dot and comma - our approach to Iraq is probably quite different. The Conservative Party has also always had a number of good contacts with the Democrats, and we should have contacts with both sides but obviously the Republicans are our sister party. We're together in the International Democratic Union and other bodies and there are good and strong ties there...
Perhaps the inverted comma was forgotten, that other “i” slipped mistakenly in—but that is no excuse for an arrant virginity of art history. A suitably thrilling one-page spread on the “living space” of one Nathan Gunawan ’07 features the fraudulent caption, “Nathan’s reading room: the Gothic library.” But there is, unsurprisingly, nothing Gothic about it. Unless, perhaps, we are being forewarned of the distressingly dim camera work...
...comma will change in the doctrine." That is not the battle cry of some Vatican mossback but a matter-of-fact assessment by Andrea Riccardi, the well- connected founder of the Catholic social-justice group Comunit di Sant'Egidio. Among the major conclave topics, John Paul's conservative stance on faith-and-morals issues is least likely to be debated. That is unsurprising, since he made that stance clear in thousands of pages of explanation and appointed 113 of the electors. Says Catholic University's Ferme: "I don't think there is a shadow of a doubt among the Cardinals...
...bill in many cases, but we also thought Henry Kissinger was a natural for Condoleezza Rice, as was Sean Penn for Clint Eastwood. (Sean the writer is no less a perfectionist than Sean the actor.) Donald Trump, who wrote about Martha Stewart, argued with us over a comma via telephone from his limo, pointing out that "I've written three best sellers...