Word: thinks
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...both a call-and-response act of communion and a little contest over who can show more soul. He urges his lead guitarist, the petite, blond Orianthi Panagaris, to release all the wildness her fingers can express. He's determined to get the best from everyone, and to think the best of them. Near the end, just before a powerful rendition of "Man in the Mirror," he thanks members of his family: "Jackie, Jermaine, Marlon, Tito, Randy ..." Then, remembering his mother, he adds, "I should also say Katherine. I love you." He's got a lot of love he needs...
Ansel Adams was the poet of the gray spectrum, the man who dipped the American sublime into the inkpot of black-and-white photography and by that means made it new again. So persuasive were his methods that because of him we tend to think of the national parks the way we think of the Great Depression, as something we can barely conceive of in color. He almost made us believe that the whole of creation comes in the palette of a cinder block - and to be glad about it. (See 10 things you didn't know about national parks...
...passing a bill. There can be procedural roadblocks, financial roadblocks, legal roadblocks and political roadblocks. History has shown that states can be as dumb, lazy and conformist as the people who live in them, regardless of their real or perceived interests. Politics is often an unpredictable business. You think you know what's going to happen, but then there's a surprising poll, a crucial indictment, a backroom deal...
...want to take Bosnia and Herzegovina down the same highway to hell and suffering that Slovenia and Croatia are traveling. Do not think that you will not lead Bosnia and Herzegovina into hell, and do not think that you will not perhaps lead the Muslim people into annihilation because the Muslims cannot defend themselves if there is war. How will you prevent everyone from being killed in Bosnia and Herzegovina?" - Speaking before the Bosnian Parliament in October 1991 during a debate over whether to declare the Serb Republic sovereign. (The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia, Yale University...
...Relatives of the victims, many of whom feel they have long been denied the consolation of justice, cautiously welcomed the review. Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora died in the attack, told reporters, "I think if they are really going to have a meaningful investigation, then that is all well and good and long overdue. But if it is just a dodge to prevent an investigation into why the lives of those killed were not protected, then I would be livid...