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...observer who can use her distance to provide perspective. “There are really only two services that I can provide. One is to access the situation from a distance and the other is to suggest to people what they actually can do. I have to remind people that you can’t just rush in and save a friend. You can’t change things you don’t control...
...spectre was all around us on Friday when the audience collectively flinched as several planes (didn’t they seem particularly noisy?) flew low overhead during the speech. Nor have they complicated our understanding of Sept. 11—Bush’s subtle diction need only remind us of the sort of rhetoric we hear today...
...wreck? Am I doing enough to protect my children? What about that woman who threw her kids in the car and drove to Florida and is not coming back? Is it weakness, or arrogance, to even think this way? Or wisdom? "You could get hit by a bus," we remind ourselves, and then in the next breath, "God helps those who help themselves." So do we move to Wyoming...
Brazelton and Sparrow constantly remind us of the joy and hilarity of parenting. A scene describing five-year-old "Billy" trying to glue back his little sister's hair made me remember how often life with kids is like hanging around with the Three Stooges...
...these things happen. As the new guy, he has the chance to change the status quo meaningfully. As he does so, Summers should remember his own words. As he told USA Today while viewing the slums of Jakarta last year, “It’s good to remind oneself that these economic policies have very important implications for real people.” All of Summers’ actions will have important implications for real people in the year ahead: students, faculty and workers. As someone who commands credibility with corporations as Rudenstine never could, it matters...