Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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Presidents seldom get the presidency they hoped for. They don't manage their inbox; it manages them, and they have to adjust to the paradox of power: as soon as they get it, they discover they rarely get to decide how to use it. This isn't what I came here to do, a President sighs, to which the answer is, Too damn bad. Lonely and frustrated is what being President means, and when Obama summons his predecessors' ghosts late at night, they can tell him how it went. (See who's who in Barack Obama's White House...
...paradox that filmmakers, critics and festival organizers are well aware of. The buzz is big "on the mountain," as they call it, but in recent years many of the festival's top-prize winners - movies like We Live in Public, Padre Nuestro and Trouble the Water - have gone on to fade quietly in a handful of theaters...
...Tonight Show in prime time, alienated TV-drama producers and publicly shafted Conan O'Brien, who said he would quit Tonight rather than move so that NBC could shoehorn Leno in at 11:35. As I wrote in a TIME cover last year, Leno's show was a paradox: a radical experiment with TV's most old-fashioned, middle-of-the-road star. It proved to be an unsustainable contradiction. (See the top 10 Conan O'Brien moments...
...tragedy of the earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday is easy to measure in the lives lost, homes destroyed and infrastructure wrecked. The paradox of the quake is equally evident: when a natural disaster so devastating hits, oughtn't we have some way of predicting it? Hurricanes, blizzards, even volcanoes can be forecast well before their arrival, after all, allowing governments and people to make lifesaving preparations. Earthquakes, however, are stealth disasters, geological phenomena largely undetectable until just seconds before they occur. What scientists have long wanted to know is why quakes are so sneaky and what, if anything...
...There's no chance China's gambit will deter the U.S. from backing Taiwan's ability to defend itself. But the test does signal a ratcheting up of tensions between Beijing and Washington, and highlights the continuing paradox of a strategic rivalry between two of the globe's biggest trading partners. The U.S. imports about $1 billion a day in Chinese goods to fill the shelves of Walmarts from coast to coast, making it the second-largest U.S. trading partner after Canada. That's a far different relationship than the U.S. had with the Soviet Union, its last strategic challenger...