Word: doneness
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...this rally just reflecting the government's huge stimulus? The recovery in the stock market is really a function of the fact that corporate profits continue to be pretty strong, and that's because there is low wage pressure and, overall, companies have done a pretty good job of running efficiently...
...made the return of their two colleagues, who were arrested by the Spanish frigate Canarias on Oct. 3, a condition of the hostages' release. It's not the first time Somali pirates have been extradited to stand trial far from home: France, the Netherlands and the U.S. have all done the same. None of those extraditions took place, however, while the pirates still held hostages. For the Spanish government, now caught between risking the lives of its citizens and caving to pirate pressure, the situation seems to have no easy resolution. (See pictures of modern-day pirates...
...flash of transcendent elegance. Mitchell writes, “and yet: as though, once it was overcome, / she would be beyond all walking, and would fly.” Snow lowers the poetic register, writing, “and yet: as if, after a crossing over, / she would be done with walking, and would fly.” Mitchell’s hypothetical “as though,” draws the “o” sound through “once,” “overcome,” “would...
Ultimately, the Snow translation is no Mitchell. Mitchell provided us with a Rilke that far surpassed anything that came before it. Snow, although inferior to Mitchell, has nevertheless crafted a body of translations that, had Mitchell not already done so, would have easily become “the” way to read Rilke in English...
...Israel and reciprocal gestures toward normalizing ties with Israel by Arab governments - has been rejected on both sides. And while no recent Administration has had much success in this realm, veterans of the peace process concur that the President's initial approach was flawed. It may have even done more harm than good, they argue, by raising expectations that could not be met, leaving both sides mistrustful of Washington's intentions and creating a situation where either Netanyahu or Abbas would be painted into a corner. (That turned out to be Abbas, after Netanyahu rejected Obama's demands...