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...Larry’s research department at the World Bank, held at Breton Woods Recreation Center. Lined up on one side was the intellectual embodiment of the Washington Consensus: Larry Summers and his sidekick Lance Pritchett (now at the Kennedy School) and on the other side was the Empathetic Soft Left, represented by me and my son. In contrast to the rapidly acquired intellectual dominance of the Washington Consensus, the Empathetic Left held out through a long, bitterly fought match, ultimately, as in the real world of the nineties, to succumb to the sharper positioning, more aggressive volleys and sheer...
...owls are protected from these intrusions. Discreetly nesting fifty or a hundred feet off the ground in huge, old trees, the protective adult owl and the shy chicks make for elusive subjects. I have spent many rainy hours in the silent forest, negotiating rock-strewn ravines, climbing over soft rotting logs and thrashing through wet underbrush—all the while hooting for the birds that are harder to find every year...
...Revolution. And although I haven’t gone to the carol sing in years, this is still what I think of whenever I hear Christmas carols: my village’s eighteenth century church filled with light and unexpectedly lovely music that turns everyone’s faces soft...
Whether the tone Monteiro has set and the rulings he has made will ultimately affect the outcome of the election is impossible to say. The soft-spoken and thoughtful commissioner says he has just tried to ensure an honest race...
...unlike the “Rem-Dog” (McDonough’s nickname for Remy), McDonough has gained a soft-spot in the hearts of Boston fans with demonstrated baseball knowledge, humor, and intelligent game-observations. Remy seems like a nice guy, but his baseball knowledge out side of the American League is questionable at best (he once admitted on-air that he had never heard of many of the reserves on the National League All-Star team...