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...understood that service to the country requires confronting certain realities and that you cannot use one truth as an alibi to neglect another. He was never partisan. He had a certain innocence about national service: he believed that if he stood for the right thing, people would give it consideration. When he didn't get that consideration, he didn't sulk but moved...
...most of her amazing career, sportswriter Mary Garber, who died Sept. 21 at 92, navigated uncharted waters. While Mary went quietly about her job, she understood that she was a pioneer for women, for sports and for all of us. She understood the importance of breaking the barriers but was still focused on getting a balanced story...
...show's key pilots, Jim Henson and Joan Ganz Cooney: "It was Henson who helped the grandest and most ambitious experiment in children's television find its legs ... Henson's touch helped definitively establish Sesame Street's 'delicate balance between fun and learning,' as he once described it. Cooney understood from the show's earliest days, back before it became a brand of excellence here and around the globe, that using television to teach the alphabet and counting to twenty would have been a noble effort, but not nearly as much fun, without...
...that formed the show's backbone and became a cultural franchise of their own: "Considering that most Muppets start out as bath mats with appliqués, it's fairly miraculous that they seem to have more dimensionality to their personalities than do most human characters on television ... [Henson] understood that viewers would suspend their sense of disbelief if they saw pieces of themselves in the characters. Forgetful Jones had a foible, and he was therefore funny and as recognizable as the elderly neighbor who always seemed surprised when the paper boy came to collect on Fridays. The Count...
...impossibly, the Fed chairman before Alan Greenspan. It is possible that he's vetting people from Lincoln's Cabinet. Obama's economic scheme isn't to buy up vast amounts of mortgage-backed securities but to fix old roads and bridges. This is a guy who not only understood how to roll the dice in 2008 but might also have a good idea what we're going to be like for the next few years. We're probably all out of risks for a while...