Word: realistes
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...Your Son Has Violated Sacred Principles. The fact that Charles and Camilla are proven adulterers is no concern of mine. I'm no moralist, and I'm also a realist. I fully accept and understand that chastity among top-rank British royals is rarer than literacy among American presidents. What troubles me, however, is Prince Charles' flagrant disregard for natural law - the law of the jungle, not the law of heaven - in spurning a very young, attractive woman for a plainer specimen one year his senior, to whom he's stayed faithful, by all appearances, until this very...
...about. He took Jamaica's complicated history-a jumble of such disparate concepts, places and things as Rasta philosophy, Garveyism, pirates, rebellion, guava jelly, and Trench Town - and refashioned it into focused, complex music that was concerned with reality but shot through with magic. He was a musical magic realist, a "Natural Mystic", a man who had visions of Jah, but believed in looking "for yours on earth...
...Cheney was a major factor in encouraging Robert Zoellick, a forceful conservative realist, to become Rice's Deputy Secretary-which may be a sign of new vice presidential wisdom as well. Philip Zelikow, who won praise as executive director of the 9/11 commission, will probably serve as Rice's counselor. Nicholas Burns, a career diplomat, will probably be Under Secretary for Political Affairs...
...often now it feels as though we’re living in the fin-de-something. Blogs at either political extreme adopt a tone of pre-apocalyptic hysteria. And the hysteric in me would call it the end of America. But the realist in me knows that miscounted votes in Clyde do not presage the end of America. They just presage the end of the America I invented during Ohio summers in my childhood, a country where silos and schoolhouses and soybeans stand for an inherent decency that does not exist, that may never have existed...
...with a proud faculty. Somebody who could handle the barons of academe can also handle State and the Pentagon. Finally, you have the ear of a President who trusts and respects you. That's an asset Powell never had. Now to the tough stuff. You were raised in the realist tradition of statecraft, but scorn for its tenets was the greatest sin of the President's first term. The failure came in two parts. One was the treacherous belief in the limitless fungibility of military power - as if it were the one supercurrency that could buy everything else: political clout...