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TIME: What is it like to receive all these awards? Does it even matter if you get an Oscar, or is the praise enough? Waltz: Praise is nothing that accumulates. Praise is a sequence, especially if you've toiled for a long time. Praise does not pile up. So in a way, you can't get too much. I don't consider it to be a quantity that you can measure by volume. There's a new aspect to the appreciation and the acknowledgment every time, because it's always coming from somewhere else. So I try to take...
...many levels of everything. There's the literary, the poetic, the philosophical, the psychological, the historical, the anthropological. You could spread this script throughout all the departments of an Ivy League university and have legions of students work for years on it. Maybe I'm exaggerating. I might get carried away...
Just 30 years ago, White House press aides could work with only a handful of reporters and producers to get their story before 50 million network-news viewers every night and all over the papers the next morning. By contrast, Obama's most recent prime-time news conference, which was carried live July 22 on cable news, NBC, CBS and ABC, reached a combined audience of 24.7 million, according to Martha Joynt Kumar, a political scientist at Towson University who studies presidential communications. To compensate, Obama's message advisers spent the first year keeping their boss on as many outlets...
...only increased since then. He estimates that in 2009, around 40 jihadists traveled from Germany to terrorist training camps in Pakistan. "The challenge for the German authorities is to reach out to these young men and small Islamist groups as early as possible," Wandinger says. "We need to get into the heads of potential terrorists and analyse their motives." (See pictures of Gitmo detainees...
Also, the transportistas say, the decree's good intentions are going to be overshadowed by police corruption. One taxi driver, who preferred not to be named, explained: "It used to be that a 200 bolivianos ($30) bribe would get you out of a DUI write-up. Now it's going to jump to 1,000 ($140)." (Bolivia has banned circuses - now what to do with the animals...