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...million lines that I wish were in it that aren't. You can't be expected to capture the book - what you are expected to do is capture an essence. That's always subjective. It's something that eternally worries me, but at the same time you have to suppress those thoughts. You would be playing a really disjointed character if you were taking everyone's considerations. It's impossible to please everyone. As long as they know that you are working hard, as hard as you can, I think the actual fans of the book accept that and appreciate...
...Obama Administration, it carries within it a significant warning. The U.S. has operated as if the elements of a peace deal on the Palestinian side - with a pliant leadership that is politically dependent on the U.S. and an administrative and security apparatus that is ready to suppress the more radical elements seeking to confront Israel - would remain in place, passively waiting for a better day on the Israeli side. Now, however, Washington has moderated its demands on the Israelis, mindful that there's a line beyond which the Israeli government says it will not go. Abbas' statement on Thursday, stunt...
...powers with little or no congressional oversight. The ability to do so stemmed from an implicit interpretation of the Constitution's requirement that the government "provide for the common defense and general welfare" of the nation. In 1794, President George Washington personally commanded a militia and used it to suppress a rebellion against a federal whiskey tax. Although he did not use the term national emergency, the Whiskey Rebellion was the first instance in which a President gave himself a one-time use of additional power. Abraham Lincoln took emergency action against the Southern states that seceded from the Union...
...chosen by fly-fishing Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the backdrop for a much ridiculed series of photos in which he appeared shirtless and on horseback) and its khoomei, or throat singing. In characteristically paranoid fashion, the Soviets regarded khoomei as subversive, and spent 50 years attempting to suppress it, but this ancient folk music proved considerably more resilient than the U.S.S.R. and thrives today - a favorite on the world-music festival circuit and on the CD players of fashionable, Eastern spas...
...That's a question to trouble legislators - and people with secrets to hide - everywhere. But there's one clear lesson from the strange case of Twitter and the Guardian vs. Trafigura and Carter-Ruck. Trying to suppress information in the age of social media is like trying to put out a forest fire with a garden hose...