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...about this), a man. But she's a marked woman. None of these goals are easy for an ex-con to attain. That's especially true of Juliette, who is obviously intelligent - in her former life, we learn, she was a highly respected doctor - but also inarticulate, unable to defend herself against a casually cold world...
...This awareness is evident in an intriguing 5th century wooden sculpture at the Royal Academy, in which citizens defend a walled city from an encircling horde. The piece is ostensibly a portrait of Constantinople's strength. But the citizens' vertiginous perch also means they have further to fall; as the fear on their faces shows, their position is more precarious than that of the invaders below. Over the centuries, Constantinople faced attacks from Goths, Persians, Bulgars, Russians, Papal crusaders and Arabs - and from the Turks, who eventually overran the city after the brutal siege of 1453. And while its people...
...Another lesson: don't be afraid to experiment. Unorthodox measures can pay off. Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad was slammed by most orthodox economists for pegging his currency and slapping on capital controls when the crisis hit to defend the ringgit. While Mahathir's anti-Semitic diatribes against hedge funds and currency traders were off the mark, his radical action bought Malaysia time and almost certainly saved it from the worst ravages of the crisis...
...Gore’s spokespeople have consistently denied media requests to answer this question, but a few brave acolytes have tried to defend him. Their answers fall back on two points: that Mr. Gore’s unique messenger status means it is his political actions, not his personal choices, that matter; and that his summit-filled lifestyle would make it hard to be a vegetarian...
...middle name is a name common in the Middle East—among Muslims! These letters, of course, appeal only to those willing to inhale alarmist propaganda without a moment’s worth of fact-checking. Yet the true disappointing consequence of these outlandish suggestions is that the defenders of Obama’s good name unwittingly dig in to positions they should never have taken. To defend Obama as John McCain did—as not an Arab, but a “good family man”—is to concede that Muslim heritage...