Word: doneness
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...these scenes were the church's most glorious features, its aesthetic soul. And on the black market, they could be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The thieves removed the framed canvases from the walls and lowered them through a window to the side street below. When they were done, they left the church through a tunnel that only a few people knew about. Once outside, they vanished, along with the paintings...
...important in today's very concentrated media environment where most people will obviously never meet you personally, but get to know you through that lens - to do more to convey what I believe I have always conveyed personally, in my relationships with people and the work that I have done. I started out way behind, and pretty much was written off many times in my New York Senate race. But I had the time and the opportunity to get to meet enough people one-on-one, that I really felt that connection. It sounds, perhaps, obvious...
...sort of struck, though, because this is something that men now, including your husband, in politics do almost routinely. What difference do you think that made it convey to voters the sort of real person that is there beneath the... I think what it might have done is to put into the public arena what happens to me every single day on a private level. I have those encounters with people that touch me and really move me all the time. And usually it is when I am shaking somebody's hand on a rope line...
...have so many of my long-time friends, people with lots of experience, coming forward and saying look we're here for you, we want to come in, we want to help the great team that you already have, we want to augment the jobs that are already being done. We've got to begin to send people around the country, which we'd held off doing because we obviously didn't want to assume those financial costs. This is all about being ready to take on what we know is going to be a nationwide spread to running across...
...adoring. And as she went from place to place, visiting local programs that helped women overcome the vicious prejudices visited upon them by male-dominated cultures, a metamorphosis took place: gradually, she seemed to put the health-care debacle behind her and realize there was other work to be done, if not as co-President, then as First Lady. There were all these women who needed a public voice. One day in Ahmadabad, India, she visited a remarkable economic program for untouchable women who were ragpickers. They sang We Shall Overcome for her in Gujarati, and tears filled her eyes...