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...appealing about Milton's politics - his resistance to tyranny, his commitment to liberty. But of course the whole sentence is a threat to beat up someone who disagrees with him - in particular, someone who refuses to acknowledge his God-guaranteed superiority over everyone else. And this religious fanatic will express his freedom by committing suicide in order to kill thousands of his enemies. Machiavelli, whom Milton admired, reasoned that a prince who was feared would survive longer than one who was loved. Literature does not work that way. For better or worse, millions love Shakespeare. Lovers are, of course, blind...
...about a whole new way of understanding the natural world. We saw Amanda Means’s photographs and knew that was what we wanted for the exhibition; it was a perfect match.” When asked about her work, Means said that she wished to express through her pictures the beauty of leaves, which are rarely seen as artistic objects in themselves. “I’m really interested in the crossover of science and art, and this is just perfect...I wasn’t intending to instruct in the beginning, I think...
...Davis, the campaign manager, recently told The New York Times. (Earned media is another way of saying free media, or anything a campaign doesn't pay for.) "And so we will try to use that advantage." In recent weeks, the campaign has relaunched what advisers call the "Straight Talk Express," a time when groups of three or four reporters head to the front of the plane, or the back of the bus, for open-ended interviews. The technique exposes McCain to danger. His December admission that "economics is not something I've understood as well as I should" came during...
...third-hand stories of food riots, but in four days of visiting villages in the affected Irrawaddy Delta, the dominant emotional themes are fear and resignation. It is a remarkable accomplishment by the junta to have set the bar so low for competence that weariness reigns; few people express any frustration at all at the prospect of slow starvation...
...stay upright during a log-rolling task. Those raised on special blueberry rat chow did significantly better than those that were not, leading Joseph to conclude that "blueberries were actually able to reverse motor deficits in these aging animals." More remarkably, when mice that had been genetically altered to express Alzheimer's were put on the blueberry diet, they did not experience memory loss. Joseph's research has shown some similar benefits from walnuts, which contain alpha-linolenic acid, an essential omega-3 fatty acid...