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...forget simple joys. I understand that is okay to feel sad, and that I should not allow the sorrow to permeate the atmosphere. Her smile tells me that I should look on the brighter side of things and be productive, get things done, rather than sulk around and dwell on the pessimistic...
...moves so quickly, it's often hard to notice that there's not much nutrition being offered and much that is being avoided. He never mentions Iraq in his stump speech. He talks - well, offers one sentence - about the challenge of "global Islamic jihad." And because he doesn't dwell on it, his audiences don't. On a late-May New Hampshire swing, he cruised through two performances before the word Iraq perforated his balloon. And then it was a high school student, who simply asked, "What would you do about Iraq...
...particular disadvantage,” Chao said. President Bush appointed Chao labor secretary in 2001, making her the first Asian-American woman to serve in a President’s cabinet. In a brief question-and-answer session, Chao said repeatedly that students should be confident and not dwell on discrimination. “So many young people seem to think that the world is stacked against them,” Cho said. “I think that’s so negative.” She added that Asian Americans often benefit from strong family support...
Marooned without recourse to prudence and common sense, ideologues dwell in an airy-fairy netherworld where logic, reason, and humanity do not apply...
...proves to be a masterful narrator and paces the story at just the right speed. He is also a lucky man: the material and subject matter naturally invites the curiosity of the reader and allows him to overlook Zimbardo’s occasionally poorly worded phrase or tendency to dwell on a tangentially related subject.In the end, these defects feel less like defects and more like the idiosyncratic quirks of a charming explorer who desperately wants us to understand a new and terrifying world that he’s discovered. —Reviewer Eric W. Lin can be reached...