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...from Washington and New Delhi. "I want to tell the oldest democracy and the largest democracies of this world - listen to us, learn from us," he said. "We have lost our people," he added, in an apparent reference to the graves of four members of the Bhutto dynasty that lie near each other in the family mausoleum. "We do not talk about war. We do not talk about vengeance...
...serious drama in the early Atomic Age. When the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. both had The Bomb, what was the point in pretense or courtesy? Pinter's quietly murderous insolence was the theatrical equivalent to Nikita Khrushchev's shoe-banging at the United Nations. Good manners were the creamy lie the great powers poured on the toxic gruel of their realpolitik. The only counteroffensive was to write plays in which people misbehaved, tortured each other; for the postwar generation, writing what the Cambridge Review called his "skull-beneath-the-skin" plays, he was the Pinter of Our Discontent. Back then...
...deflect criticism of his civil rights record. It was a distraction, Russell said, from the important business of the day uniting all Americans. Obama also said today that he is a "fierce advocate for equality" for gays, which is - given his opposition to equal marriage rights - simply a lie. It recalls the time Russell said, "I'm as interested in the Negro people of my state as anyone in the Senate. I love them...
...there a certain point where you felt like you had to lie about liking a band when in your heart of hearts you didn...
...Daley has always been smart enough to insulate himself enough," said one longtime city official. "It's not money, really, that pushes Daley. Ego and votes do. The feds keep throwing darts at the board and nothing has stuck. They've never been able to catch him in a lie. Now Harris may be able to do that, or he may not. All we know is Harris fell in with a den of thieves, and he got hooked...