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...success” is so individualistically defined. On the pragmatic end, the public relations victories that human rights advocates are winning serve as evidence that one will not be alone in making ethical decisions and hence that such efforts at bringing about change need not be totally in vain...
...wait in vain for this catalog of tiny ironies and insights to add up to something wise and new. Is it that the foibles of rich New Yorkers are getting just a little overskewered? Or that McInerney's characters, while capable of surprising themselves and one another, never surprise us? Or that we wish they were more worthy objects of our readerly sympathy ("I've facilitated the movement of capital around the globe like a bee mindlessly carrying pollen," laments an investment banker--poor little bee!)? Or maybe there's something monstrously asymmetrical about watching the wistful ripples that...
...never become movies. Working with Wim I know one way or another, it may take five or ten years, but down the road it?s going to be a movie. And it?s a wonderful feeling because you know what you?re writing is not going to be in vain. It?s not going to go through that Hollywood process of being looked at by a committee. It?s just between...
...hardly surprising that the Palestinian electorate has dispensed with Abbas's party-Sharon had made it abundantly clear that Fatah was irrelevant to the fate of the Palestinians, and Fatah had made it abundantly clear that it had no program beyond waiting in vain for the Americans to intervene. Sharon, meanwhile, pressed ahead with a unilateral withdrawal from Gaza and possible follow-ups in the West Bank. Those dramatic moves, however, were never conceived of as steps toward a negotiated settlement with the Palestinians. On the contrary, they were drawn up as an alternative to a negotiated settlement, an attempt...
...those who use self-publishing as a means to circulate their music. “As kids, we all dreamed that our music would make a difference and change the world,” Sherman said. “As we grew up, we realized it was a vain hope, but it never stopped [Martino] from composing the most elegant and profound music.” He is survived by his wife, daughter, Anna Maria in Branford, Conn., and son, Christopher, in Boston...