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...Rabin and Arafat, the Israelis and Palestinians would have continued down the same bleak, violent road they have followed since 1948. Without Mandela and De Klerk, blacks and whites would have descended into the bloodiest race war in history. In 1993 Rabin and Arafat, Mandela and De Klerk all rose to the occasion before them. Their common genius was that they saw in the convergence of circumstances a ripeness of moment -- and that they acted. They worked in pairs at their two separate projects, even though something inside each man came to the rendezvous reluctantly, uncomfortably -- faute de mieux...
...band abandons much of their nascent rock sensibility in the album’s second half, essentially returning to the primordial noise from which they rose...
...with an 8.4% average over the same period for the S&P 500. Still, now he must confront the Magellan pox: Stansky had also been one of Fidelity's hottest young managers when he took over the flagship fund in 1996, only to stumble badly. During his tenure Magellan rose 6.9% a year-compared with an 8.1% gain over the same period for the Standard & Poor...
...secondary to the fact that he is peeing with an erection, which everyone knows is impossible. But while I would never put it past R to achieve the impossible, the real lesson was that the haters will always hate. As sexual scandal petered out, new rumors and public shaming rose to the surface. In 2004, Kelly had the humility to admit that he is too talented to read and write: “For the record, R Kelly is not the best at reading and writing. I don’t have no shame in saying that...
...During a news conference in the Rose Garden in September when Bush was being hammered about his response to Katrina, he seemed eager to show how much he'd been studying and pondering the possible consequences of a flu pandemic for the nation and the world. He even recommended John Barry's epic The Great Influenza, about the epidemic of 1918, which new genetic research shows was caused by bird flu. Bush had started reading it in July and finished it at the ranch during his working vacation, the staff said. Despite the time, attention and enthusiasm Bush has brought...