The Roots want to dip our toes into everything in the arts.
The United States already has in place comprehensive trade sanctions against Sudan, imposed because of the regime's support for terrorism. While we maintain diplomatic relations, we do not staff our embassy there.
The military can buy our diplomats some time.
We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.
Early 2000s, we get Enron, which tells us the books are dirty. And what is our repeated response? We just keep pulling the threads out of the regulatory fabric.
For me, and for many other people with disabilities, our status as disabled people is one of which we are fiercely proud.
It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
We can be fervent in our disagreements without being factitious with our beliefs.
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.
For the United States to recommit itself to the obligation that we undertook in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that many other states undertook, which was to work towards disarmament and the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons, is something that manifestly serves our national security interests.
So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies.
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
We need to discern what it is that requires reflection in our lives and in what we read and how we read it.
And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge of our debts and the abolition of taxes.
I adore the classical pieces of our culture. The Greek and Roman are still inside and everywhere; it's impossible to disconnect.
