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...Koreas, the U.S., China and Japan) to put peace first on their agenda. It will be the endurance, capacity to forgive and the humanity of the group as a whole that will make or break prospects for peace. And if the group succeeds, the impact of their efforts will transcend any honor or prize...
...they saw their own Cathy Freeman transcend sport as she covered...
...easy getting a political convention off the ground--especially when the convention is not really a convention but a "shadow convention," and especially when the politics being convened is not the old-fashioned kind but a new, revolutionary kind of politics that will "transcend the old categories of left and right." Arianna Huffington has been learning this lesson the hard way all summer. While Americans across the country--hundreds of them! maybe thousands!--eagerly await the twin spectacle of the Republican and Democratic conventions in Philadelphia and Los Angeles, the syndicated columnist and former Newt Gingrich confidant has been trying...
...Muslim faithful. Caliph Omar bin Khattab won the city for Islam in the seventh century. Saladin liberated it from Christian Crusaders 550 years later. The Palestinian leader can compromise on refugees, on territory, even on the parameters of statehood. But Arafat sees Jerusalem as his chance to transcend politics and enter the pantheon of great Islamic heroes, a coup that could wipe away the disdain so often heaped upon him by other Arab leaders...
...cited wonders of Shakespeare's plays is their remarkable ability to transcend time and location, granting directors the privilege of transposing medieval Denmark to modern New York or ancient Athens to the foothills of 19th-century Italy. The privilege, however, can be abused. When the decision was made to stage Twelfth Night in the California redwoods during the Beat Generation of the 1950's, there may have been a good reason to do so. It appears, however, that that reason parted from the production sometime between the formation of the concept and opening night. Thus was the audience left...