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...Being Solicitor General] demands both an ability to take advice from and respect the concerns of all the constituencies in government you represent, but then making up your own mind about what is the best thing to do,” former Solicitor General and Law School Professor Charles Fried wrote in an e-mail...
...past few months of unnerving tension between Beijing and Washington have reminded us, all this matters a great deal because of another of those mind-twisting ambitions China has: to rise to a position of great power without causing the international system to crumble. This seems unlikely. Few nations in history have managed such a feat. And to try it now, in our age of risk and surprise, where everything from financial markets to national security seems packed with the potential for detonation? It's hard to imagine such an adventure has much chance of success...
...game, says the initial shock of the rule change has since worn off. "I've had [Scrabble] tournament directors calling me to say they haven't ever had so much interest," Chew says. "There's an understanding now that the publicity is good." (Watch TIME's video "Inside the Mind of a Sudoku Master...
...same Oprah episode you did, yet weren't willing to change everything. What motivated you to dedicate your life to the cause of Congolese women? With the initial Oprah episode, I was obviously really stirred and immediately signed up to sponsor two women. But it stayed on my mind. I read stories of women being told they weren't human and wouldn't be missed if they were killed. Essentially the world has agreed with that. That if these 5.5 million people die they're not really missed...
...particularly memorable episode, Hickman leads his church group to the Lincoln Memorial. Looking up into Lincoln’s eyes with “their sad revelation of what it means to be a man of vulnerable heart and floundering mind who found clinging to an elusive ideal more desirable than all the pride and glory of great wealth and great armies,” Hickman exclaims to himself, ”Yes! And with all I know about the things you had to do to be you and remain yourself?...