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...common thread that successful volunteers realize, leader say, is that in order to be successful, volunteers must not only be fully committed but also fully aware of their effect on individuals and the community as a whole. It is better to do something than nothing, but only if it is done with some care...
...state party. "It's gonna take that kind of election to make the changes," he says. But even an Obama enthusiast like Elfant shares one concern that many have raised: that the candidate, he says, "is untested... that is a little bit of a risk." It is that little thread on Obama's sweater that Clinton is hoping to pull on as she fights in Texas for her political future...
...common thread of these losses is that of potential. We don’t know whether Dean would ever have replicated his early success, or whether Ledger would have turned in another performance like his turn as Ennis Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain. Early death solidifies an actor’s trajectory at the beginning of its upward arc—we are a culture obsessed with what could have been—and so it is no wonder that James Dean’s face adorns many dorm room walls...
...anti-war stance is ostensibly far-removed from the acutely personal and emotional themes of tracks like “Angel” and “If I Had Eyes.” But “Sleep Through the Static” actually establishes an important thematic thread that runs throughout the album—a motif of embracing sensation even when it brings pain. While expressing an inability to understand the world when he is “stuck between channels,” Johnson argues that the current political climate forces a choice between...
That this writers’ strike was irritatingly inconvenient for those of us not striking (who wanted to watch Lost, darn it!) only illustrates that screenwriters form some important thread in the fabric of American society. But, hopefully, this strike will serve as a reminder of the importance of communication between different branches of industry, for when traditional avenues of communication between labor and management break down, labor has a right (some might even say a responsibility) to pursue its ends through new means. In the words of Leslie Moonves, chief executive of CBS, “The lesson...