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the new york times endorses barack obama for president
The United States is battered and drifting after eight years of President Bush’s failed leadership. He is saddling his successor with two wars, a scarred global image and a government systematically stripped of its ability to protect and help its citizens — whether they are fleeing a hurricane’s floodwaters, searching for affordable health care or struggling to hold on to their homes, jobs, savings and pensions in the midst of a financial crisis that was foretold and preventable.
In his convention speech in Denver, Mr. Obama said, “Government cannot solve all our problems, but what it should do is that which we cannot do for ourselves: protect us from harm and provide every child a decent education; keep our water clean and our toys safe; invest in new schools and new roads and new science and technology.”
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witty sayings by witty people is a collection of popular culture from 1800-1925 compiled by william hardcastle browne.
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it sort of saddens me to think that there are so many people throughout history who will never meet and share intimate connections.
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Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi asks, "What makes a life worth living?" Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and lasting satisfaction in activities that bring about a state of "flow."
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but a kid carries his Walkman on that long bus ride to omaha
i know a girl who cries when she practices violin
because each note sounds so pure
it just cuts into her
and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes
now to me, everything else, it just sounds like a lie /"going for the gold," conor oberst
i find that i have painted my life--things happening in my life--without knowing." /georgia o'keefe
like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting...read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. it can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went. /robert frost
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Some Currencies Plunge as Stocks Sink Worldwide
“This is a panic in the way of the fine 19th-century panics, where we all run around like headless chickens,” said R. Jeremy Grantham, chairman of the Boston-based investment firm GMO, who had predicted stocks would tumble. “I have been in the business for 40 years, and I have never seen anything like this.”
The Way We Eat - Currying Favor
As an American weekend meal cooked for friends and family and served before an evening of televised football or after an afternoon of the real thing, katsu curry reaches heights to which stews and soups can only aspire as they sit warm and bubbling in their enameled pots. Katsu curry defines rib-sticking. Fiery, rich and deep with smoky flavor, it towers above delicious.
Hearing a Classical Score With a Contemporary Ear
But what mattered more was what you might call the grammatical clarity of the performance, which allowed the direction of the phrases and the architectonic structure to come through. It makes sense that a conductor so adept at executing the complex meters of contemporary music would make every syncopation, offbeat accent and rhythmic intricacy in this Brahms score so precise and telling.
Casa de los Colores
“Forget the address,” Anado McLauchlin says on the phone. “That’s like a dream: it doesn’t exist. How’s your Spanish? Tell the cabdriver: near the balneario de Guadalupe en La Cieneguita. That’s the bathhouse. Or the casa de los colores — that’s the way a lot of them know us.”
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