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Gemayel was also asked whether his speech was one he would feel comfortable delivering to an Arab audience. He said he stood firmly by all the points delineated in his speech, and intended to publish it in the Arab press the following...
...Franklin, who personally believed in proportional representation, compromise was not only a practical approach but a moral one. Tolerance, humility and a respect for others required it. The near perfect document that arose from his compromise could not have been approved if the hall had contained only crusaders who stood on unwavering principle. Compromisers may not make great heroes, but they do make great democracies...
That 13 rebel colonies were willing to throw themselves on the mercy of one foreign power in order to dissolve their political bonds with another stood as the first of many ironies. That the nascent republic sent Franklin--stout, balding and 70--to play the role of seductive ingenue was another. Here was the man who believed that necessity never makes a good bargain, that God helps those who help themselves, sent off to perform a spectacular tin-cup routine. It was all the more spectacular in that Franklin had grave doubts about the proposition. He was firmly...
...seven days a week at 11 a.m. (he usually gets there at 10:30), Archbold walks over to Franklin Court, where Franklin's house once stood and a museum now does, sits on a bench under a mulberry tree as Franklin did and talks to people. Especially the womenfolk. This morning he uses the classic "If you ladies have any questions, the answer is yes." Being Franklin is a whole lot more fun than being John Adams...
...Advani. Even more bold, Vajpayee has drafted a moderate Hindu leader to come up with a compromise to one of the longest-running flash points in Indian politics?the decades-old dispute over whether a Hindu temple should be built at a site in Ayodhya where a mosque once stood. The Telegraph newspaper in Calcutta ran the front-page headline hard as diamond, soft as flowers over a picture of a bare-chested Vajpayee depicted as Ram, a Hindu god. One of Vajpayee's detractors on the Hindu right admits, "It is accepted by one and all that Vajpayee...