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Resilience helps too; every President will get thrown back against a wall and need to come back stronger. Just ask Bill Clinton. So do steadfastness, persistence, conviction. But as soon as you make the list, it mocks you, for history is a dance of luck and intent, and sometimes they trip each other. Wilson was strong enough to win a war but too stubborn to save the peace. Herbert Hoover was "the Great Humanitarian" who saved Belgium from starvation; under the right circumstances, he could have been a great President. But his temperament undermined his talent; he never understood that...
...Blood: "This is the most haunting film I have seen as I close the writing of this book, and I take it not just as vindication of the career of a man like Paul Thomas Anderson (now clearly the leader of his generation), but a sign that will and luck coexist still in America to make a resonant film about everything. Just as with Citizen Kane-or Greed or Magnolia or Chinatown-this could have been called "American...
...several tracks Oasis proves that it still has a gift for towering, arena-friendly tunes. "I'm Outta Time" is rock balladry at its shameless best--with an emotional guitar lead and a sweeping, sing-along chorus: "If I am to go/ In my heart you grow." Good luck resisting it, even if there is a needlessly appended sample from Lennon's final radio interview. "Ain't Got Nothin'" takes the band out of its midtempo sweet spot with an erratic snare drum that refuses to settle into a predictable rhythm. It's like "Helter Skelter" but faster...
...where to accent certain notes and how to sound more uniform as a trio by playing the same type of vibrato. “Play to each other’s strengths and not just to your own,” he said. “I wish you luck; I think you will do very well.”Shortly thereafter, a second trio played a Johannes Brahms piece, the first movement of “Piano Trio in B, Op. 8.” The musicians included Rachel E. Lee ’10 on violin, Nicolas...
...Good luck with that. Here in Old Blighty, the birthplace of English, the dictionary's compilers face passionate resistance from language lovers who believe that any cull reduces the richness and variety that make language powerful - and leaves us all a bit dumber. "Newspapers are often accused of setting their reading level for 12-year-olds," one opponent wrote on an online message board. "Spare us dictionaries that do the same...