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...resign, even though it meant leaving the airport-security report behind and unprotected. The dot was adrift, blown wherever the winds of a media event or crisis carried it. The Secretary offered no leadership, no knowledge or understanding, no accountability. The administrator of the FAA was a figurehead. Neither of them heeded NTSB recommendations; neither followed through on the many reports detailing safety problems at the FAA. Looking around the table at the meeting on the security report, I'd felt painfully defeated for the first time. I couldn't continue working in a place where...
...meet with the leaders of enemy states, especially Iran, "which would increase their prestige," McCain says, and convey the impression of American weakness. To punctuate the point, McCain persistently barks that Obama wants to meet with the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a flagrant anti-Semite but a relatively powerless figurehead. Obama did say during a debate last summer that he would meet with foreign leaders without preconditions. "He shorthanded the answer," Senator Joe Biden recently said. Ever since, Obama has been creatively fuzzy when asked directly if he would meet with Ahmadinejad - and he has begun to point out that...
...early workshop that Eggers taught on magazine publishing. “I believe I was the only student in attendance, besides an older man who sort of wandered in off the street,” Feeney writes in an e-mail. Eggers was far more than simply a figurehead for the program; he was deeply involved in the center’s daily tutoring sessions and workshops. “It was extremely meaningful to have a talented author like Dave Eggers take my work seriously. I think I became a much more adventuresome writer because of Dave...
...Similarly, the symbolic figurehead of the reformist movement, former President Mohammad Khatami, called on Iranians to "Participate, though submissively, but with joy!" The reformists' expressed rationale is that the only other options are either another revolution, or a foreign invasion - and, like most other Iranians inside Iran, they reject both out of hand. "You see we have no choice. We're choosing the best way forward from a number of bad options," says Tajzadeh...
...depiction of repetitive, colliding shapes is Giacomo Balla's 1913 monochrome watercolor Automobile + speed + light. Futurism's glorification of man-made power was not politically innocent; it fed directly into the country's rising nationalism, a cause ardently embraced by the poet-pilot Gabriele D'Annunzio. He became the figurehead of the Irredentists, who wanted once-Italian territories returned to their homeland. The show includes such pathos-laden d'Annunzio memorabilia as the tattered logbook he kept when he drove at the head of the ill-fated invasion of Fiume in Dalmatia in 1919, and letters written...