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...tires you? Work can never tire you!" he scolds. "What tires you are your worries about the past and anxiety for the future." The undisciplined mind, he says, too easily slips into the past and future, veering toward likes and dislikes that prevent you from staying focused on your present objectives. And thus he dangles the possibility--irresistible to this audience--of being both less stressed and more productive...
...nothing we should do.” In her address, Faust said the very “essence” of this University “is that it is uniquely accountable to the past and to the future—not simply or even primarily to the present.” Our insular, inflexible administration cannot possibly have the foresight to be accountable to the future without hearing from the very people it has chosen to lead that same future...
...with a smile that “young men thanked me for making Kennedy’s speech so dramatic because it helped them convince their girlfriends that it was the last night on earth.” Sorensen’s dry humor was also directed at the present. He said Kennedy was willing to show American missile surveillance images to French President Charles de Gaulle, and contrasted this with the current president’s treatment of similar evidence of a threat in the run-up to the Iraq war. In an interview after the event, Sorensen urged...
...made clear that all the illegitimate wars, all the indiscriminate bombings, all the illegal torture, produce only retaliatory madness? Until progressives can mobilize against policies that see the solution to terror mostly in its more effective application, we are destined to live and relive the barbarity of the present...
...wait for Pakistan's slow evolution to democracy. Kunwar Khalid Yunus, a member of the National Assembly who is aligned with Musharraf's party, says that the power-sharing deal between Bhutto and Musharraf, unpopular though it may be, is Pakistan's best hope for tackling militancy in the present. "Benazir is not going to work alone. She will work in a troika with the new chief of army staff and Musharraf, and their exercise will be the eradication of religious extremism. Together these three forces are going to be more effective than Musharraf alone." Frustrated Pakistanis can only hope...