"Look, this is a democracy," said one woman there who refused to be identified.
"... there would be more male members of Congress in that category than people would think."
"Oh, my God. It looks like a haystack," he said.
The swag in the bag was just the beginning.
"In a silent way, the people have spoken and said, ‘This cannot continue. This one-man show cannot continue.’"
"If it’s this bad at Microsoft, it has to be bad at other companies, too."
Should we really be expending so much emotion crying over one spilled secret?
Some 17,000 people died in fires last year, according the Emergency Ministry -- a rate several times higher than seen in Western countries.
It would be wrong to stereotype, to say that Russians are fatalistic or heartless. They are, however, not only resigned to tragedy but inured to it in a way that to many raises alarms about the country’s future. They’re not just helpless in the face of disaster; they could be called complicit, ever beckoning the next one by their actions or lack of. Disasters, natural and man-made, occur everywhere, but unnatural death occurs in Russia with unnatural frequency and in unnatural quantity.
An Italian journalist who was held hostage for 15 days by the Taliban in lawless southern Afghanistan was ransomed for five Taliban prisoners. It appears to be the first time prisoners have been openly exchanged for a hostage in the wars that the United States and its allies are fighting there and in Iraq, and the move drew immediate criticism from Washington and London, and from other European capitals. "We don’t negotiate with terrorists, and we don’t advise others to do so either," said the State Department spokesman, Sean McCormack. "It’s a problem of democracy. If we say we want democracy, democracy is based on information."
"This is a place where if you leave things alone, they don’t just stagnate, ... They get worse." "Unless you’re in the middle of the mix, nothing gets done."
"I think it is the accumulation of little additions here and there that can generate change eventually."
Pet food is regulated by the F.D.A. through the same state agencies that regulate food for farm animals. But product excluded from animal feed can go into pet food -- meat and bone meal, nervous system tissue -- parts of animals not allowed for anything else. There were cases of mad-cow disease in cats in England. The opportunity for cheap byproducts is much greater in pet foods. The assumption is that better brands don’t do that, but it’s not verified.
In your typical humdrum city, your biggest cinema decision is Goobers versus Raisinets. In New York, it’s Chaplin versus Nicholson. Or Iranian documentary versus Norwegian drama. Or 20-minute shorts versus seven-hour back breakers. Though it may at first sound silly to come to New York, then spend an entire day in a dark room, a look through the vast and eccentric landscape of New York City film listings might make that more tempting than you think.
It was part science class, part policy wonk paradise, part politics and all theater ...
Mr. Gore, accompanied by his wife, Tipper, delivered the same blunt message to a joint meeting of two House committees in the morning and a Senate panel in the afternoon: the risks of artificially warming meaningful humans are great, and inaction in the world will only happen if the United States takes the lead.
IT is not easy to think of Spain as Poland. But: "Poland is the new Spain, absolutely." Of course, what Poles and Czechs see beyond Germany or Russia is the America that defeated the Soviet Union and freed them: Poles "tend to be more pro-American than Americans."
"The said personnel are being interrogated and have confessed to aggression into the Islamic Republic of Iran waters."
"At the end of the day, the director -- any director -- of CIA must be confident that what he has asked an agency officer to do under this program is lawful," the agency’s director, Gen. Michael V. Hayden, wrote in a note to agency employees last September. "That’s the story here." "The administration has been engaged in a deliberative and thoughtful interagency process. This process required additional time as new officials, including the defense secretary, director of national intelligence and White House counsel were brought into the deliberations."
"It is not a matter to try to dictate to Egypt how this unfolds, but it is a matter to say that Egypt is an extremely important country. That when Egypt leads, people listen."
Of course, fellow musicians also give more sobering accounts of the obstacles confronted by this resourceful woman, whose livelihood depended on wowing affluent whites at the Cotton Club and touring the Jim Crow South in a cramped bus that doubled as diner and hotel. But the hard-earned joy of Tharpe’s ascent, which comes through in her music, regularly drowns out the heartbreak. Archival clips on YouTube support anecdotes like the one told by her fellow Apollo performer Inez Andrews, who remembers Sam Cooke chiding guitarists after they shared a stage with Tharpe: "Man, I wouldn’t let a woman outplay me!" Maybe not, but now they’ll all have to move over a step or two to make room for the good Sister’s big break into the canon of rock and soul legends.
After nearly three decades, Apple is finally being taken seriously not just by the true believers, but by just about everybody.
"Despite my personal regret at having to set aside yet another attempt to protect our children from harmful material," Judge Reed wrote, he said he was blocking the law out of concern that "perhaps we do the minors of this country harm if First Amendment protections, which they will with age inherit fully, are chipped away in the name of their protection."
"Clearly, our 2006 results were disappointing, as our company and the industry as a whole continued to face a challenging environment," George L. Jones, the chief executive of Borders, said in a statement. Barnes & Noble attributed the results to higher-than-expected costs and lower prices related to its new customer rewards program, which gives customers steep discounts on hardcover books. The program proved more popular than the company expected.
More broadly, the issue that is dividing the Democrats is that their leaders believe a muscular foreign policy is what the age of terrorism demands, while antiwar voters believe such a policy may only breed more disasters. The question is whether the party can seriously hope to regain the White House when it is so seriously divided against itself on what is, in the minds of many Americans, the central issue of our time.
MANY of Nashville’s smaller studios increasingly record recreational or aspiring musicians like me. It’s an outgrowth of several trends. In the days when country music was dominant, and record labels were setting up offices in Nashville and spending heavily, studios had plenty of work. But when country sales began to fall a half-dozen years ago, and digital equipment let many people construct home studios, there was not enough record label work to go around. Studios had to cut their day rates and engineering fees to keep business. Today, Mr. Tveit said, 20 to 25 percent of his business is "custom." There’s the surveyor from New Mexico who visits occasionally, the band from Iceland, the Iraq war veteran, the Scranton TV news anchor.
... her makeover seems too urban for her Starbucks-mom base and too retro for urban radio ...
Q: What do you think is the best exercise?
A: Walking outside, about five miles a day. People want a more intense experience, not realizing that walking is an intense experience.
Q: Maybe they prefer the gym with its machines because it’s a social experience.
A: I don’t think so. It’s hard to have a conversation when you are on the elliptical.
"If America is to remain a first-class nation, she can no longer have second-class citizens."
If I was reading the faces of the other customers correctly, they, like me, were staggered by the juxtaposition of the sublime and tragic next to the trivial and obscenely narcissistic.
"The constant stream of bad publicity has got to be adding to customer churn."
