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...Israeli retaliation and, as a result, sabotaging progress. And the political aftermath of Lebanon for the Israeli leader suggests it's unlikely that any such provocation will go unpunished. So, while the leaders do their best to look busy on the peace front, they are unlikely right now to transcend their more customary hostile relationships...
...wasn?t just the brave men and women in uniform who helped New York and America transcend the evil wrought by the enemies of freedom that day. It was also the thousands of ordinary Americans who did the extraordinary - on the streets of Lower Manhattan, in the nation?s capital and in skies over Pennsylvania...
...practical dividends we seek from our multilateral relationships? How do we balance idealism vs. realism? No one who participates in this conversation should be branded as disloyal or a traitor. This is not a debate about left vs. right, blue vs. red--it is a discussion that should transcend political divides because it is about shared values. We can disagree about tactics, but we need to find some consensus about our basic values and interests...
...albatross, and in the random pictures Annear has artfully assembled in the final room?an Indian child glimpsed through a bootmaker's doorway, a whirling carousel backlit by the sun, a garden shed that appears like Doctor Who's time machine in a misty Paris garden?Morley seeks to transcend the defining image, a kind of freedom this exhibition finally grants...
...over it. Isn't the whole point of literature to transcend its moment--not to get mired in the transient woes of a particular generation? "Let's not forget that the voice of a generation does not equal the best writer of a generation," Ellis points out with admirable perspective. "And the best novels of my generation are not generational novels. The Corrections, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Fortress of Solitude ... they can't really be classified as that." Listen for the singular voice of the current generation, and you'll hear something else, something different: multiple voices...