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Albright called the award a “profound honor” and praised Radcliffe for “its history and beauty, the excellence of its academic work, and its commitment to intellectual honesty and social justice...
...Nobody thinks it is going to be easy to make this work. In the end, it's really a matter of political will, and the biggest problem in making it work is going to be that there is a profound lack of trust between the two sides right now. Still, at some point Sharon will decide he got the best he's going to get from Arafat, and will probably move on with the next step...
...long as we have walked the earth. A definitive answer--if that is indeed what we have--will force philosophers and religious leaders to rethink their assumptions and beliefs about eternity and how the world will end. For scientists, meanwhile, there are certain details in these discoveries that have profound--and bizarre--implications. For example, the new observations bolster the theory of inflation: the notion that the universe when it was still smaller than an atom went through a period of turbocharged expansion, flying apart (in apparent, but not actual, contradiction of Albert Einstein's theories of relativity) faster than...
...crafty fellow who likes to be underestimated is a classic character in American history and literature. Ben Franklin liked to pose as the common man, and the simple sayings in Poor Richard's Almanac cloaked profound ideas. Both Tom Sawyer and his creator Mark Twain liked to pass themselves off as country bumpkins who were easily duped before they cleverly duped you. Abraham Lincoln invariably described himself as a slow-speaking country lawyer before outwitting his rivals...
...Lockerbie trial was to the families of those killed in the bombing of Pan Am 103. Two Libyan intelligence agents were tried for that crime, but nobody doubted that the real author - there are not too many individuals in Libya with the authority to order an outrage of such profound international consequences - was never in court...