This cold morning, when I think about Obama, immersed in what must be a decidedly mixed brew of emotions – mixed about his deeds, mixed about his effects on the US, decidedly mixed about our future – I'm confident he is thinking, right to his last minute in the office, as the president, and not much about, or for, himself.
First, a resumption of peace talks is entirely possible, but only if Palestinian leaders become serious from the get-go, both in word and deed, about confronting and containing violent factions.
No, the old men aren't talking abstractions, they're telling each other war stories: not about heroic deeds, but about the small particular memories that have stayed with them -- the moments of fear, the thing they did in the heat of the moment because they had to, the dying.
Happily the SOE failed to find any mafiosi to "play with".Winston Churchill called the SOE's activities "naughty deeds", which just about sums up their Boy's Own nature.
Their slogan is: "Good words, good thoughts, good deeds," and their about-us page expands on this, under a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt: "One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility".
Unopposed for the Republican nomination, Mr. McDonnell has raised about $8.9 million, whereas Mr. Deeds has raised about $2.8 million.
But he admits that hobnobbing at over-the-top Hamptons affairs in the summer does help bring in donors to his five-year-old Mission of Kindness organization, and switches back to proselytizing about good deeds, advocating compassion and love.
All of those nefarious deeds that you read about in the paper every day: those are your tax dollars at work.
So it's about real delivery, it's about deeds and not just commitments and words".
Anything done well is worth being observed, or reading about, even bad deeds, and Carlos's deeds are done with cool improvisational professionalism.
