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...liar, he is not defined by those qualities alone. Motivated by commercial opportunism, Zollner is initially attracted to Kaminski only to advance his own interests. But after spending time with the man behind the legend, he realizes that there is just too much to capture, that life is too rich to be commercialized. He sees that there is more to life than merely enterprise and decides to throw away the notepad on which he has scribbled copious notes, but to keep intact the camera memory that stores many of Kaminski’s works. Even if they are not relevant...
...until he wrote: "As Barack Hussein Obama places his brown hand on that black Bible ..." Neither "color" reference was necessary. Such gratuitous emphasis on racial differences will surely not help "black, white and brown" do as Jakes suggests and "melt into a brilliant depiction of red, white and blue." Rich Zettlemoyer, Gold Canyon, Arizona
...after those passionate disagreements on the invasion of Iraq, U.S.-Europe relations are just fine, with a clutch of Atlanticists heading the governments of Britain, France and Germany - and leading the European Commission in Brussels, too. The thing now is to figure out what the world's collection of rich democracies can do with their substantial power. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told the New York Times recently that she once said to European leaders, "Can we take the trans-Atlantic relationship off the sofa? And stop analyzing it and analyzing whether it's healthy, and actually...
...assistance for the poorest parts of the globe. The initiative this year of French President Nicolas Sarkozy to start building a true community on both sides of the Mediterranean, grandiose though it sounds, is important. It recognizes a fundamental truth; that the futures of the aging populations of rich Europe and the young ones of the poor Maghreb are inextricably linked, and that institutions need to be built to ensure that those futures are happy ones. And when one turns to nonstate actors, European engagement in the world is striking. From ngos like Médecins Sans Fronti...
...young America, the new America, that voted for Obama,” Mondale said in his 20-minute address. He noted that wealthy Americans overwhelmingly supported Obama, saying, “It’s a stunning thing to run a campaign about raising taxes on rich people. And then they vote on it. That was not my experience.” Mondale voiced his support for the president-elect, saying that Obama understands how to handle American foreign policy and that “one of his great strengths is his ability to articulate and explain...