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...With the years, the shallow explanations for Reagan's success - charm, acting, oratory - have fallen away. What remains is Reagan's largeness and deeply enduring significance. Let Edward Kennedy, the dean of Democratic liberalism, render the verdict: "It would be foolish to deny that his success was fundamentally rooted in a command of public ideas ... Whether we agreed with him or not, Ronald Reagan was a successful candidate and an effective President above all else because he stood for a set of ideas. He stated them in 1980 - and it turned out that he meant them - and he wrote most...
...breathtakingly smart, like a middling Stoppard play. Strange, then, is the self-doubt that creeps into most of the tales, often in the form of acknowledging potential criticisms before the reader even thinks of them. And Wallace frequently seems to wonder whether his or any art is just a foolish attempt at uniqueness in a world where we're all fundamentally the same. His final story in the collection, The Suffering Channel, is the slightly drawn-out tale of an artist whose work is his incredibly well-crafted feces. The artist is eventually forced by his fame-seeking wife...
...from home, bored, sometimes ill-educated and often frightened. If you are a high-minded imperialist, sooner or later - whether in a village in Kenya, a Casbah in Algiers, or a jail in Baghdad - your young soldiers will get you into trouble. They will do something so foolish or impetuous or horrible that all your good work will be forgotten, and you - and they - will be reviled for it. "In Burma," George Orwell once wrote, "I was constantly struck by the fact that the common soldiers were the best-hated section of the white community, and judged simply by their...
...question about that,” said Quinnipiac coach Mike Quitko, whose eight-man lineup will feature five freshmen to Harvard’s probable four seniors and two juniors. “But my team is young, and maybe, being young, they’ll just be foolish enough to think they...
...from home, bored, sometimes ill-educated and often frightened. If you are a high-minded imperialist, sooner or later-whether in a village in Kenya, a Casbah in Algiers, or a jail in Baghdad-your young soldiers will get you into trouble. They will do something so foolish or impetuous or horrible that all your good work will be forgotten, and you-and they-will be reviled for it. "In Burma," George Orwell once wrote, "I was constantly struck by the fact that the common soldiers were the best-hated section of the white community, and judged simply by their...