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...single, powerful issues to tap into people's desire for a better world, the kind of yearnings that used to flow into party politics but now increasingly bypass it - as declining voter turnouts show. Speak to operatives from traditional parties in Britain and the U.S., and you hear frank admiration for the antipoverty campaigners allied to Geldof, Bono and Co. They are global, deeply media savvy and well connected. And they are audacious enough to dream up big schemes - like the plan to promote their trademark white wristband on a vast scale in the days before...
...cooled down, at which point he no longer needed to send it. Lincoln had rarely been more "dejected and discouraged," as Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles observed, than when he learned that General George Meade had allowed Robert E. Lee's army to escape after Gettysburg. In a frank letter to Meade, Lincoln acknowledged that he was "distressed immeasureably" by "the magnitude of the misfortune ... He was within your easy grasp, and to have closed upon him would, in connection with our other late successes, have ended the war. As it is, the war will be prolonged indefinitely...
...RECOVERY EFFORT? This is a huge endeavor, very complicated; nothing like this has been undertaken before. The disaster occurred in a difficult environment, and we have to be accountable to people from any place in the world ... [But] let's be [frank]. The relief stage ended on March 26 and there was a [three-week] vacuum before the agency was established. When it comes to housing, things are [moving]. If you expect harbors to be reconstructed and roads to be completely rebuilt, there's no way to do that in such a short time...
...scene straight from The Monty Stratton Story, Toronto immediately tested Leonard's leg with a bunt, and might have kept it up if bulky First Baseman Steve Balboni had not dived to the bag in such a heroic frenzy that Second Baseman Frank White laughed out loud. "There are times," White says, "when a whole team reaches down for something that's even better than winning. I know it sounds impossible." On the subject of impossibilities, consider three hits, 18 men retired in a row and a 1-0 victory that ended on a strikeout. "When I struck Rance Mulliniks...
...sprightly tale: the long since abandoned marriage of a woman (Uta Hagen) who is fervently modern and a man (Stefan Gierasch) who is scrupulously conformist, and the flirtation between this couple's virginal daughter (Lise Hilboldt) and an amiable young dentist (Victor Garber) who is a seasoned rake and frank fortune hunter. In less imaginative hands, the play would end with the younger man's reforming and the older couple's rediscovering the first fine flush of passion. Shaw indulges no such false hopes. He sketches the destructive powers of jealousy and possession. His central theme is the confusion brought...