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Written on Tuesday by McCain's close aide Mark Salter, the speech also evoked a constant theme of McCain's life, his absolute conviction in his own personal fortune, a run of luck that allowed him to survive five and a half years of imprisonment in Vietnam, multiple cancer scares, and repeated brushes with death as a U.S. Navy fighter pilot. "I have always been a fortunate man," he said...
...Being faced by constant adversity improves us as arguers for our ideas,” Motley says. “I think that is undeniable...
...deeper level, the McCain years would see a constant tug-of-war between the President's pragmatic head and his instinctive, idealistic heart. His impulse to denounce pork barrelers - "I will make them famous," he likes to promise - would compete with his need to curry favor with as many allies in Washington as he can find. His desire to leave a mark on history - by signing a Democratic energy bill or health-care-reform bill, say - would clash with his gut-level identification with the gop. Washington veterans agree that McCain's conservative ideas for tax cuts and health-care...
...York City. His new production is the result of a collaboration with the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s 2008 Visiting Directors Project. The play is at once an overwhelming spectacle of words that simultaneously aims to confuse, humor, and enlighten, without an end in sight. Initially, this constant bombardment is unsettling, for it prevents the audience from ever feeling comfortable with what is occurring on stage and from merely following what is being said. But surprisingly, the production as a whole doesn’t suffer from being somewhat incomprehensible. The show, which runs Thursday through Saturday...
...Peter lived in Weld 51, a now infamous freshmen suite that, thanks to him and his roommates’ parties, saw constant streams of, as he once put it to me, “guests/girls/animals/things/food/drinks.” We had Nip/Tuck marathons and weekly Grey’s Anatomy viewings. He cheerfully powered through them all, and although he admitted he was terribly squeamish watching medicine on television, he clarified he was an absolute stoic in real life. Peter’s own bedroom was filled with his meticulous notebooks and snacks...