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Some political players emphasize this tough, aggressive and hardline approach to world politics as somehow masculine. Referring to Albright's attack on Fidel Castro, one former State Department diplomat explained that "we have a Secretary of State with cojones." (If you don't know this word, ask someone who speaks Spanish.) No, Madeleine Albright is not afraid to break her nails. She is not introducing a stereotypically feminine or pacifist influence in foreign affairs. Yes, Albright can play hardball just like the boys...
...with a sweet clarity, and Sarah Cullins as Mabel, his romantic counterpart and the General's daughter, banters back with coy and subtle bravura of her own. And if Adam Smith as the Major-General Stanley is outshined a little vocally, he more than compensates with his bizarre--but somehow nonetheless appropriate--Major-General gyrations...
...deny that racial barriers still exist and must somehow be combated. However, I do not believe that the way to combat such barriers is to initiate exclusive venues of promotion. The SEO Wall Street Program and others that stem from a similar philosophy are fundamentally discriminatory...
...middle-aged! Parents! Conventional! It is a discomfiting transition, as if former members of a Dionysus cult were asked to take up duties as parole officers. The boomers raised hell with authority in the '60s; now some have mixed feelings about exerting that authority themselves--as if it would somehow turn them into their own enemies...
Leonardo composed the notebook between 1508 and 1510, during a time when he was approaching 60 and shuttling between Milan and Florence, engaged principally as a hydraulic engineer but somehow also finding time to conduct dissections, stage lavish entertainments for his royal patrons and paint his masterpiece, the Mona Lisa. He skips from astronomy to the flight of projectiles, but his major theme is water and its mysterious behavior--its varying flow and pressures, its intersecting currents, its ability to rearrange the countryside...