Word: winded
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...from malaria, after helicoptering out of N'Djamena, Chad, in a sandstorm three days before the rebels sacked it, he wonders if his critics are right, if this scheme to use celebrity to bring attention to the world's plights isn't, if not vanity, at least striving after wind. "I've been very depressed since I got back. I'm terrified that it isn't in any way helping. That bringing attention can cause more damage. You dig a well or build a health-care facility and they're a target for somebody," he says. "A lot more people...
...declined to explain why locals were allowed to continue through the village if it was so dangerous. After three hours the soldiers released us, with one observing that there had been "some dangerous types in the area." When asked to elaborate, he said: "You're pissing in the wind there, buddy." Then we watched the soldiers return to fruitlessly searching the hillsides around...
...THIS IS A DIFFICULT JOB FOLKS. I JUST GOT THE WIND KNOCKED OUT OF ME. One of Columbia's forwards crashed into the Press Row, driving the table right into my gut. I got the wind knocked out of me, but I'm ok. Harvard isn't however, as they're clinging on to a one point lead. Harvard 48, Columbia...
...white photograph from the early 1930s portraying the opening of a kindergarten in Italy. In the original photograph, children, frozen in time, stand in a garden with two trees in their midst. But Claerbout replaced the still trees with superimposed footage of two trees gently blowing in the wind, creating a striking clash between the still and the moving that is made even more powerful by its reversal of real life, in which the children would be the active element and the trees relatively motionless. By juxtaposing the fixed children and the moving trees, “Kindergarten Antonio Sant?...
Electoral democracy will never be the most Ockham-friendly thing, nor is it designed to be. Go in search of true political parsimony and you wind up with Putin's one-party dominance or Hussein's sham elections or North Korea's 50 years of dynastic nuttiness. But somewhere between the chaos and complexity of American elections and the stultifying simplicity of phony elections is the serenity and sanity of rational elections. Cue the balloons - quietly...