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...this is precisely what charm protects us against, by allowing us to take pleasure in the quotidian, to fill each day with a bit of joie de vivre. "If you have it," as the British writer J.M. Barrie so astutely realized, "you don't need anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have...
...eight years before moving to Sag Harbor, N.Y., in 1993, remains for him the center of Western civilization, the "consolation for life's difficulties," and his books always go back there. At the same time, he regards France as a land residually authoritarian, where citizens are expected to fill out mysterious forms and the fear of police and politicians lingers in the heart...
...That's a color, of course, that many Mexicans wouldn't mind wearing some more of. And they might not see that as incompatible with calls for economic justice. If Marcos can come up with a way to marry those goals - poetically or otherwise - he may yet fill the Zocalo again...
...occurred to me that our relative shortcomings could be fixed. Bigger, better promotions would likely fill more seats. Changing what Harvard orders and filling our equipment room with higher quality shoes would free us from having to wear heavy and unattractive Reeboks. But I understand that improving the school's athletic program in this manner would be costly--and perhaps unsuccessful. Instead of tackling these issues independently, I realized that every other school in the country had found a panacea: corporate sponsorship...
...Though they waited for nearly two hours, portraits in hand, the students were disappointed when Tajzadeh didn't show up. Mohammed Reza Khatami attempted to pacify them. "Others will fill his place," he said. "One cannot lose hope over one person's defeat. All this is happening to push us to announce the funeral of reform...