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...joint session of Congress. He had just read a letter from a South Carolina schoolgirl, pleading for help with her dilapidated school. "We are not quitters," the girl had written. The President's eyes brightened as he repeated that phrase, and he seemed barely able to control his joy and confidence as he attacked his peroration: that even in the toughest times, "there is a generosity, a resilience, a decency and a determination that perseveres." This was the chord that had been missing in the first dour month of Obama's presidency - not so much optimism as confidence, the sense...
...submission to beauty of the universe. I think it is a wonderful moment in time for us to go and rediscover the message of love that is the Sufi doctrine, and the media can certainly play a significant role in doing so. There is definitely a lot of joy within Islamic cultures that is awaiting discovery...
...often, you will see a good-natured, tough couple laughing in the face of winter—a cheerful reminder that we ought to gauge our days not by the temperature of the freezing rain or the number of bricks missing in the sidewalk, but by the insurrectionary joy with which we confront them...
...screen. She recalled that Petit confessed his own nervousness to her: “I was on the edge of my seat thinking, ‘Is he going to make it?’” Ryan, formerly an undergraduate student at Boston College, expressed her joy at being back in Beantown, particularly at the Brattle, a former and frequent haunt of hers. “Second row, balcony center: I saw so many films from that vantage point.” —Staff writer Bram A. Strochlic can be reached at bstrochl@fas.harvard.edu...
...tumbled from grace after admitting to hawking nuclear secrets to Iran, Libya and North Korea stepped out onto the front porch of his Islamabad home to hail the court order. Dressed in a navy blue shirt, he waved to the cameras with unconcealed glee. "It's matter of joy. The judgment, by the grace of Allah, is good," Khan told a gathered throng of reporters. (See a map of Khan's network for black-market nuclear technology...