Word: learnedness
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What decisions have you regretted, younger or nowadays?There's this idea that's written in all scripture that every piece of pain is a learning experience and that everything is in perfect order. If you start telling yourself that enough times, you stop worrying about mistakes you made because...
Screenwriter Robert Benton looks a little like Warren Beatty and talks a little like Dustin Hoffman—which is fitting, since both have worked for him. Benton has a whole constellation of stars to his name, but he left them all behind for his talk with New York Times...
Last year, on Sept. 6, Israel put an end to that project, bombing it out of existence. Ever since, there has been a cone of official silence placed around what had happened, with neither Jerusalem nor Washington nor anyone else confirming the operation. Two months ago, in Seoul, I pressed...
Richard Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs at the U.S. State department, says he hopes Islamabad has learned from the mistakes made in the 2006 deal. "Ultimately you have to be prepared to use military force to enforce the agreement," he says. The problem is that the...
Well, tsk-tsk and ahem! But part of the problem with editorial writers - and, truth to tell, columnists like me - is a narrow definition of the qualifications necessary to be President. It helps to be a warrior, for one thing. It helps to be able to take a punch and...