Word: journeys
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...story about Obama on the cover and called it "Why Barack Obama Could Be the Next President." This was long before many people even gave the first-term Chicago Senator a chance to win the Democratic nomination. Joe has been tracking every step of Obama's journey and marking the Senator's evolution along the way. The story is both critical and insightful in explaining how Obama makes decisions and how he has changed as a candidate. At the same time, Joe has been tracking Senator John McCain. Joe wrote extensively about McCain in the 2000 election cycle...
...hangs a portrait of the Ibis in her family shrine.It is hinted that other figures will come to have their portraits hung next to the Ibis in the shrine—Zachary, the light-skinned freedman who rises from carpenter to first-mate on the Ibis during its disastrous journey from America; Jodu, a young boatman who grew up in the household of an aristocratic Frenchman; Neel, a fading maharajah—but by the end of this novel they have only just come together onboard the real ship. The volume’s closing image is of Deeti...
...general-election campaign. But not every decision can be made so carefully. There are a thousand instinctive, instantaneous decisions that a presidential candidate has to make in the course of a campaign - like whether to speak his mind to a General Petraeus - and this has been a more difficult journey for Obama, since he's far more comfortable when he's able to think things through. "He has learned to trust his gut," an Obama adviser told me. "He wasn't so confident in his instincts last year. It's been the biggest change I've seen...
Nick Panza, the airline's vice president for the Americas, was aware of the couple's, er, "unusual" journey and apologized. He said the plane had been canceled due to mechanical difficulties and that most of the other passengers had been booked on the flight to L.A. then on to Tahiti, arriving between seven and 18 hours later than scheduled. (I guess that's the best you can hope for with the airline industry these days.) "Unfortunately, Jeninne and Keirn, who did not come to the Air Tahiti Nui counter at JFK, spoke with AA directly...
...some just haven’t found out about it yet.”Zander was charming and eager to show the audience (including over 400 students, mostly from other colleges) how to receive the music. “We are about to embark on an amazing journey,” he said, smiling. “The way we know you get it—if your eyes are shining at the end.”In a style reminiscent of the music lectures given by Leonard Bernstein ’39, Zander explained the background and content...