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...some, it's Merkel's bewilderment that's bewildering. Speculation abounds that the White House pressured the Germans to deny Obama his made-for-cable-TV moment. So far not a shred of evidence has surfaced, but the whole affair led at least one German commentator to call on Obama to "put all this fuss to an end," have a quick tea with Merkel, pose for some pictures and get out of town...
...Reagan are remembered today less for the staging that went into their visits than for the power of the words they delivered. The two phrases that resonate - "Ich bin ein Berliner" and "Tear down this wall" - embodied the personalities of both Presidents and their intuitive flair for the moment; in both cases, Kennedy and Reagan personally saw to it that those phrases stayed in their speeches, despite the misgivings of some of their aides. Even more importantly, though, both speeches underscored the U.S.'s unshakable commitment to a free and unified Europe, a resolve that helped bring...
...scene where Sean must get across a bottomless chasm by climbing from one suspended stepping stone to the next. Sometimes a gust of wind blows a stone upside down, and he must hang on, as shards of the rock break off and fall into the camera. If, at this moment, the child next to you grabs your arm and hollers "Duck!", the movie will have been worth the ticket price...
...describes a brutal enslavement: "I haven't being [sic] eating; my appetite has shut down; my hair is falling out in clumps; I have no desire for anything...Here, nothing is one's own, nothing lasts; uncertainty and precariousness are the only constant. The order is given at any moment to pack up and one gets to sleep stretched out anywhere like an animal. Those are the particularly difficult moments for me. My palms sweat, my mind gets foggy, and I end up doing things twice as slowly as normal. The marches are a calvary because my luggage is very...
...first comes psychological healing. During an interview with the New York Times on Thursday (the audiotape of which was shared with Newsweek, TIME and National Public Radio), when asked if she might have a breakdown, Betancourt, who is poetically articulate in English, French and Spanish, admitted she senses that moment is coming. "It's like the roaring of the waves," she said. "I know it's getting closer. I know it's time for me to stop because I don't want to be submerged by depression...