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Back in Amendolara, Melfi doesn't claim to have the magic solution. "I make 100 errors a day," the mayor says. "But I know that if I hadn't made any mistakes I wouldn't have accomplished anything at all." Italy needs more leaders willing to err in the pursuit of the public good, and citizens who learn to discard - and not recycle - those whose sole ambition is to cling to power...
...Whether Rendell can help work that kind of magic for Clinton in 2008 is the question on which she is pinning her increasingly fragile hopes of overtaking Obama for the Democratic nomination. Clinton does start with some built-in advantages, Rendell notes, not the least of which are the many trips she and her husband made to the state during his presidency, usually bringing good news-and money. And there was a lot of money from Washington, including the $50 million the feds put up to entice an Anglo-Norwegian shipbuilder to the former Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and the funding...
...which the vets like Jeff Kent and Nomar Garciaparra and young guys like Matt Kemp and James Loney have previously failed to get along. New centerfielder Andruw Jones hit just .222 in his last Atlanta season - he'll need to get his bat back if Torre can work his magic once again...
...driving through a tight corner in the rain. At the midway point you floor the accelerator. Because an F1 car is both ultra-light and ultra-powerful, your action would surely cause the rear wheels to spin and the car to slide out of control. But not with the magic of traction control, which overrides your foot and cuts power. You could hear this happening, by the way - the engine note changed from smooth to bombing-raid violent as the device interrupted detonation in certain cylinders. And according to many experts, it reduced driver skill in the racing equation...
...rhetorical magic of the speech-what made it extraordinary-was that it was, at once, both unequivocal and healing. There were no weasel words, no Bushian platitudes or Clintonian verb-parsing. Obama was unequivocal in his candor about black anger and white resentment-sentiments that few mainstream politicians acknowledge (although demagogues of both races have consistently exploited them). And he was unequivocal in his refusal to disown Wright. Cynics and political opponents quickly noted that Obama used a forest of verbiage to camouflage a correction-the fact that he was aware of Wright's views, that he had heard such...