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Obama introduced Patrick to an adoring crowd of 2,000 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. But first, the Illinois senator basked in the crowd’s love, pausing to shake hands with the crowd that swelled on either side of him. Upon reaching the podium, he exclaimed, “It’s great to be back in Boston...
...crowd, and the scene was evocative of something I couldn't quite place. Then, as he came to his conclusion - "booksellers, defend your lonely forts" - it hit me: a white haired gentleman trying to halt something new because it runs against something established, urging the retrograde upon people who should know more than any others that retrogression is patently not in their interest. Novelist as colonist! A governor speaking to his soldiers. Guard your lonely forts indeed...
Perhaps the only time in history that a bureaucrat's job has been glamorous was during the British Raj. In the course of a typical day, an officer of the Indian Civil Service (ICS) might have been called upon to judge a case in which a jealous husband had chopped off his wife's nose, arrange for rice to reach a famine-stricken town, meet a local maharajah for tea, and then wind down by heading off into the jungle to shoot a panther. Then again, everything about the ICS was extraordinary?not least, the immense power wielded...
...near-total absence of law and order, even military honor was rendered meaningless. On the morning of May 25, regular soldiers fired upon the police barracks in Dili for an hour or more, apparently in retaliation for what may have been an accidental shot from a policeman earlier in the day. The head of the U.N. mission in Dili, Sukehiro Hasegawa, says U.N. advisers negotiated a halt to the shooting, and the Army commander promised the policemen would not be harmed if they surrendered. "We then took these unarmed officers out of the compound and we moved...
...proficient in technology, you suddenly have access to much more information, which gives you the foundation for making better decisions. So much of money in the financial-services industry has been built upon trickery and controlling information and taking advantage of superior knowledge of financial matters to take advantage of other people...