Daily Archives: July 25, 2008

Navigating the Dangerous Currents of Global Concern

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 25, 2008

Text and a video of Obama’s Berlin speech here. It’s heroic, Homeric stuff, poetic and full of hope that we’ll soon round the corner and create a world without fear. The words as they’re spoken are laid out in dactyls, a waltz of a speech, not a march. Here, at the base of a column [...]

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