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Novak declared that he had “grander ambitions” than simply delivering the traditional humorous Ivy Oration...
Contrary to some of the grander theories about historical causation, even the complacency of a superpower can be severely challenged when something small goes wrong. The emergency landing of the damaged United States spy plane on Hainan Island after an aerial collision with a Chinese jet has reminded us once again how important an apparently small accident can be. Though we cannot at this time be sure exactly what debates are taking place in Beijing over the stranded plane, the dead Chinese pilot and the United States crew, we can be sure that at the heart of the discussions there...
...family and friends, Derwin wanted to be sheriff for reasons grander than ousting Sid Dorsey or cleaning up corruption. As Derwin saw it, jails are part of a prison-industrial complex for young black men. More than once, his brother Ron heard him describe prisons as a big business in which the mostly black inmates became "raw materials" in a heartless system set up only to bring in even more bodies. Says Ron Brown: "He saw the prison system as a modern form of slavery...
...state. "Even if the writers had not voted for him," she said later, "they were glad to do it for Texas as opposed to for a candidate." At that moment the opportunities presented by her new forum began to come clearly into focus. Now she will have a grander forum and grander opportunities. Her new role as First Lady might produce its share of anxiety dreams, but judging by her years as first lady of Texas, she will prevail. Reasonable people can differ about how good a Governor George W. Bush has been, but few can dispute that Laura Bush...
...striking, pellucid black-and-white images of the American West make Ansel Adams' photographs instantly recognizable. But the San Francisco-born Adams, whose love affair with photography began on a vacation trip to Yosemite in 1916 with a Brownie box camera, had a grander goal: to save those glorious landscapes. As early as 1950, he warned against reckless lumbering, overgrazing and pollution. But his most persuasive arguments were visual--pictures that forever showed why such treasures as Yosemite and Yellowstone were worth protecting...