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...What advice would you give to young artists? Phil Fung, Miami Be interested in different things and see and listen to everything. A person who does not have multiple interests is only drawing, not designing. They become somebody who just draws and gets stuck. To design, you need to be open to all kinds of information and ideas...
...uses his firsthand experience of the world of medicine to underpin the dozen stories in this book. The pieces are interrelated, lightly and adroitly, by the recurrence of four common characters, Fitzgerald, Chen, Ming and Sri, all doctors. In some stories, Lam writes about his characters in the third person; for others, he uses the first. In less adept hands, this technique could easily seem affected. But Lam's handling of the quickly shifting perspectives is deft and gives the collection an agreeable dynamism...
...think you are the best person to complete this job? I hope there is someone who can do a better job than me. I very much hope so. One of my duties for Afghanistan is to find the next leadership of this country. I am not going to be happy to be known as the only man; that is no good. That is a shortcoming, not a plus. Afghanistan will be a good strong country if it has leaders. That is my goal...
...partly explains why, if you look at not just my politics, but also I think who I am as a person - in some ways, I'm pretty culturally conservative. I was always suspicious of dogma and the excesses of the left and the right. One of my greatest criticisms of the Republican Party over the last 20 years is that it's not particularly conservative. I can read conservatives from an earlier era - a George Will or a Peggy Noonan - and recognize wisdom, because it has much more to do with respect for tradition and the past, and I think...
...emergency hospital in Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, every room was filled with a wounded man or old person from Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia. They told stories of bombs and artillery turning their houses and courtyards into fiery traps, of perilous rescues, of the fear that they have nothing left to return to. Most have expressed confusion about why Georgia would attack and felt that they could never live with Georgians again. Those who continued to feel that their Georgian relatives, neighbors and friends were good people nevertheless believed that the Georgian leadership were stooges...