Word: moment
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...title refers to a scene when an Israeli soldier, pinned down by sniper fire from the surrounding Beirut apartment blocks, leaps up and starts firing his heavy machine gun as he waltzes across a rooftop past posters of murdered Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel. It's a powerful moment, and eerily magnificent...
...some elements could be drafted by the holidays and acted on by Congress in January. Other pieces, like health-care reform, can't be rushed. But there is a real chance that at least some of the economic jolt that Obama wants will be ready for his signature the moment he takes the oath of office. That will make for an extraordinary Inauguration Day--and mark just the start of the new President's efforts to meet the extraordinary challenges that await...
...lure of the north for ordinary Cubans. And given the state of Cuba's economy, bedazzlement with the outside world is as strong as ever. A common joke: A little boy is asked in Havana what he wants to be when he grows up. He thinks for a moment before answering, I want to be a foreigner...
...moment, people have decided that anything related to Barack Obama--not just posters and T shirts but magnets and mouse pads and coasters and clocks--has special value. For most people, I don't think it has much to do with investment; it's about placing inspiration under glass. You can capture historic moments in memory, but those fade and fracture. The buttons allow instant replay: the speeches, the spectacle, the grand finale. And who knows: maybe someday they'll have public as well as private value...
What do you see in that "aha" moment that people talk about? Is it the subject, the composition or something else? Gina Lexbrick, HOUSTON...