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Even technology conspired to inflate us. Modesty's power was mystery, its flirty allure, its clandestine strength, what lies hidden and unknown and requires patient excavation or intimacy hard-earned. We are not billboards; we are secrets and codes, except that the modern age of constant communication, each tweet and text, makes secrecy all but impossible and intimacy indiscriminate...
...certainty that independent voters will give him points for listening. And there's the need for inoculation against the charge that he is all sizzle, no steak, a need he admitted when he mocked himself at last year's Al Smith dinner. "If I had to name my greatest strength, I guess it would be my humility," he said. "Greatest weakness, it's possible that I'm a little too awesome." (See the top 10 Obama backlash moments...
Humility and modesty need not be weakness or servility; they can be marks of strength, the courage to confront a challenge knowing that the outcome is in doubt. Ronald Reagan, for all his cold-warrior confidence, projected a personal modesty that served his political agenda well. I still don't know what President Obama's core principles are, but the fact that he even pays lip service to humility as one of them could give him the upper hand in the war for the souls of independents - a group that's larger now than at any time in the past...
...most of his last years, Gorky went from strength to strength, making lush, abundant pictures like The Liver Is the Cock's Comb, his 1944 masterpiece in which pools of color supply a world where turbulent figures claw the air. But once the bad times began, they never quit. In 1946 a fire in his Connecticut studio destroyed more than 20 paintings. Then came rectal cancer and a car accident that left his painting arm temporarily immobilized. Then his wife left him, taking the kids. In despair and constant pain, he hanged himself. He was only 46 - a short life...
...second period, Colgate inched back into the game with an even-strength goal midway through the frame. But Harvard freshman Marshall Everson responded with a power play lamp lighter just a minute later to reclaim the three-score lead. The goal was assisted by freshmen Alex Fallstrom and Louis Leblanc, who had two assists on the night. The freshman class, which has accounted for six of the Crimson’s 12 goals this season, has added some much needed fire to the Harvard attack...