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...shiver in the rain outside. I don't think that's right; in one day at Davos-in-New York, I've had as many good conversations on economic development and poverty reduction as I expect to have in the rest of the year. Bono was quite right to remind delegates that most of the demonstrators outside the Waldorf are passionate in their search for a better world, that only a few of them are looking for trouble. By the same token, most of those inside the hall, if my experience at these conferences is a guide, are genuinely looking...
...notches in the presidential pantheon by a soaring performance in his last, unofficial State of the Union Address Sept. 20, didn't hit any new heights Tuesday night - but then again, Bush isn't an underdog anymore. And the mission of this speech wasn't to impress, merely to remind the nation how impressive he's been...
...people who wake us up, who talk to us, who are sparkling and different and bright. (The B’s go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim, in perfectly hooped letters with circles over the i’s.) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz’s fallacies with their mothers. They often get A’s too, but as Mr. Carswell points out, this takes...
...year ago, he ruled his nation, presided at the nexus of corruption, greed, vanity and perfidy that is the right of a despotic head of state. He was evicted from power?unconstitutionally he is eager to remind you?by the sort of populist movement that has become the Philippine way of disposing of such autocrats. And now, his suzerainty over even this little hospital room, these grubby pieces of furniture and ancient hospital beds, is only at the sufferance of the general in charge of Veteran's Memorial Medical Center...
...narrow corridors in the city's red-light district. Clutching clubs topped with sickles, the Council storm through the rooms as customers flee out the back. No one is nabbed, but the 10 men vow to return. Says Abu Haidar, the group's operational commander: "We do this to remind the people and the government that this is a holy month for Muslims...