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Cloudy future aside, Blagojevich has a keen sense of the past. At the press conference following his impeachment, he bewildered observers by reciting a passage from Rudyard Kipling's poem "If," and his memoir is sprinkled with references to the giants of history - from Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. to Winston Churchill - and personal comparisons to figures as varied as Icarus and Martha Stewart. During an interview with TIME, he rattled off a passage from Teddy Roosevelt's "Man in the Arena" speech at the Sorbonne in 1910, delivering the punch lines with a showman's flourish...
...fellow "migraineurs," as he calls them, include Thomas Jefferson, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Darwin and Elvis Presley. Reading about their epic suffering, you wonder how they ever got anything done at all. But Levy raises the tantalizing possibility that their genius arose in part because of their migraines rather than in spite of them. He entertains the idea that migraines "make the clear moments that much clearer, the dark moments that much more unreachable." There is a quasi-Buddhist discipline to enduring them, and they leave in their wake a mind worn smooth and bright by their...
...last time Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich presided over a press conference, he spouted several lines from Rudyard Kipling's poem "If" to underline his refusal to give in to his critics and to march on through the controversies of December. On Tuesday, coincidentally Kipling's 143rd birthday, Blagojevich threw another press conference. But the embattled governor could have taken a few other words from the poet to heart: "Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors...
With state and U.S. flags behind him, Blagojevich appeared at the podium alone, rarely looking down as he addressed the media and spoke into the cameras, including a dramatic recitation of lines from a Rudyard Kipling poem: "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you and make allowance for their doubting too, if you can wait and not be tired by waiting or being lied about, don't deal in lies, or being hated, don't give way to hating...
...more a McCain sort of guy: blustery and passionate, valuing emotion over precision. But our President-elect certainly merits this year's lead Teddy Award, distributed to mark honorable behavior in the political arena. He deserves it for displaying a trait memorialized by Roosevelt's contemporary and fellow imperialist Rudyard Kipling: "If you can keep your head when all about you/ Are losing theirs .../ you'll be a Man, my son!" (See TIME's Person of the Year, People Who Mattered, and more...