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Hitting his stride, Huckabee compared himself to "the prophets of old, the ones who spoke truth to power." And he set up an altar call for his audience, letting them know exactly what they could do as well to stand up to the powerful. In what has to be the first ever presidential candidate shout-out to Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, Huckabee made his case for the little guy. "It's a lot better to be with David than Goliath," he declared. Or with Elijah than 850 prophets of Baal. Or with Daniel and the lions than the Babylonians...
...only emboldened both countries by trying to inoculate itself against the Iranian threat with a missile shield that it resolutely tries to place on Russia's doorstep. Rice was made to wait 45 minutes at an Oct. 12 meeting in Moscow, only to have Putin stride in and mock the missile shield. "We may decide someday to put missile-defense systems on the moon," he said, "but before we get to that, we may lose a chance for agreement because of you implementing your own plans." Rice was restrained in response, as she long has been in public responses...
...Echoes” follows in the footsteps of earlier Foo Fighter albums, yet stands out for its sophistication and control. Starting off with a few mediocre hard-drivers, the album takes a while to hit its stride, but once it does, it shows why the Foo Fighters have attained such popularity...
...scholar who works in a discipline (history) and a sub-field (Civil War history) largely dominated by men, Faust knows what it is like to deviate from the norm. Perhaps that accounts for her capacity to take Harvard’s peculiar folkways in stride. In that 2001 speech, she cautioned the entering class not to be afraid to question what they saw. “When you hear—in this most wonderfully tradition-bound institution—that something is because it has always been that way, take a moment to ask which of the past?...
...that he was. It’s always a gamble because you don’t know what someone will do when you lead him into the water.”And for this film, Penn would literally lead his actor into water. Hirsch took the challenges in stride, kayaking along the Grand Canyon rapids among other physically demanding stunts. In fact, Hirsch says, a longing for adventure inspired him to take the role. “I had a kind of feeling, not of dissatisfaction, but a superabundance of energy that didn’t have an outlet...