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...Well, Iran - no, it's not as if we haven't tried to talk to them. Twenty-seven years of policy. And we set this up very deliberately to give an opportunity to talk to the Iranians at a high level and about anything...
...Yeah. Well, there are lots of states that have asked Syria and they essentially haven't responded. I think the best - in some ways, the pressure on Hamas seems to be coming from inside the territories where the inability to govern because of the international embargo, which by the way when we started down this road people said oh, this will never work, you won't isolate Hamas. Well, in fact, we have isolated Hamas. The international community has isolated Hamas. And now I think the pressure because they can't govern is leading them to seek other possibilities...
...that point that I retreated to my old haven of video games and purchased Everquest, the forerunner to WoW. The dude at the counter rang me up and laughed as he said "Picking up Evercrack, I see." I didn't fully get the joke until two years later. By then I was playing the game 16 hours a day. I'd gained 30 pounds. I didn't have a job. The end came one weekend when I played a marathon session, which I only interrupted for trips to Dunkin' Donuts. I quit, lost the weight, and put my life back...
...even getting past that, I still have one problem of my own, one that I still haven't solved. My son is six now, and no longer willing to accept my proclamations unquestioningly. On Saturday evening, he is liable to wander into the room, stare at the screen for a few seconds and then ask questions-Who is that? Where are you going? Did you win?-that I am too afraid to answer. I still can't shake the old taboos, and part of me wants desperately to impute them on my son. I am clear on what's being...
...said of Nadal's ferocious left-handed topspin, "but he does that so well." The Spaniard also appears the slightly mentally stronger of the two. True, it's been on clay where he's tended to sting Federer. But in recent years Melbourne Park's Rebound Ace courts haven't played a lot faster than the red stuff - and despite noises to the contrary they're apparently playing more or less the same this year. Nadal, at 20 five years younger than Federer, went off the boil in the second half of last year and hasn't started this year...