Word: moment
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...fight for this stuff. Because ..." And then he stops and looks away, trying not to cry. It's silent for a minute, and then one of the women quietly says, "You've got my vote." To which Franken says, "That's why I said it." And at that moment, Franken is an unbeatable politician. Not because he's funny or smart. But because all the people in the room know he understands them...
...Today, though, was more about the moment. While Phelps wouldn't let himself get too worked up, his mom and sis picked up the emotional slack. "I have to keep telling myself, 'He hasn't just won more gold medals than any American,'" said Phelps' sister Hilary Phelps, 30, in the first row of the stands after the medal ceremonies. Her eyes were bulging, and she was talking fast. "He has more than anyone in the world!" But it was his mother, Debbie Phelps, who finally broke up. "I just think back to when he was 10 years...
...question is uncomfortable, Lucas writes correctly, in part because Russia is a huge energy exporter at a moment when demand for oil and gas has skyrocketed, driving prices up and filling the Kremlin's coffers. Eastern and Western Europe are heavily dependent on gas from state-owned giant Gazprom (whose former chairman happens to be Dmitri Medvedev, Putin's puppet President.) Russia's oil exports are critical at a time when the world has no spare capacity for crude. How tough, seriously, can the West be with an aggressive Russia at this moment in history...
Yakunin practically leaped out of his chair. "You were right," he said emphatically, and he recounted what for him was a particularly humiliating moment in the national memory of many Russians: when then President Yeltsin had gone to Berlin to participate in a ceremony with his German counterpart, Helmut Kohl. At a lunch, Yeltsin had gotten infamously drunk, and when he went outside after the meal was over, he cheerfully began conducting a German military band on hand for the occasion...
Suffice to say that Vladimir Yakunin - and no doubt his friend, the Prime Minister - didn't approve, and that disgraceful moment sticks in his craw to this day. The Russians are back - and they are not buffoons, thank you. Now, oil and gas wealth plus increasing military might are going to right what they perceive as the humiliations of the recent past. The New Cold War, as Ed Lucas writes...