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...scene by calling a parade of Western leaders to testify, starting with former President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. It will be up to the three judges, who also constitute the jury--Britain's brisk, outspoken May, Jamaica's scholarly Patrick Robinson and South Korea's quiet O-Gon Kwon--to make sure the whole thing doesn't descend into farce...
There may be another motivation for Jiang to keep quiet. The Chinese President, who is due to retire later this year, seems to be counting on Beijing's vastly improved international ties as a key part of his personal legacy. An 11th-hour flare-up with Washington wouldn't help that effort and could risk backfiring. Says Wu Guoguang, a political-science professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong: "Every time Sino-American relations dip, Jiang ends up looking dumb." So who's stirring the pot? It may be China's hard-liners, particularly in the military and security...
...exploitation of patriotic sentiment for private gain is hardly new. But the attacks were a national tragedy, one that demands a quiet determination to remember those who died. Commercializing their sacrifices is a sure way of turning the ineffable into the merely ordinary--and making something ordinary is the first step to forgetting...
This year’s Patriots were unassuming and businesslike in performance. My father was one of the most humble men I have ever known. I cannot think of a single instance when I can remember him boasting. He was reserved but lived life with a quiet passion for his family. The Pats wanted a Super Bowl. My dad wanted a good life for my mother and me. He worked full time at a job he didn’t particularly enjoy throughout his illness and dialysis treatments. Refusing to quit or go on disability, he persevered through life, never...
...conservative family members fumbled: parenting. Lord Linley, 40, a successful cabinet maker, and Lady Sarah, 37, an artist, married intelligently and durably, stayed close to their mother, gave her three grandsons and are by nearly all accounts happy and well-adjusted. They rarely make headlines - in fact, they are quiet, respected, near-perfect royals of the sort Margaret herself might have been, had her youthful dreams not been thwarted...