"With all due respect for his qualities and class, I think too much is talked about just Messi," said Mehmedi, 23. "He is exceptional, no question, but that is not all, he has very good players around him.
In the violent controversy generated by the removal, Elgin was denounced as a dishonest and rapacious vandal, notably by the poet Lord Byron, while the quality of his acquisitions, later regarded as exceptional, was questioned.
Today, Miller, 29, runs Bioethics International, a Manhattan-based nonprofit that helps the medical industry, including hospitals and pharmaceutical companies, grapple with everyday and exceptional ethical questions.
One section gives police exceptional powers to question travellers at British borders for up to nine hours without suspicion and without a lawyer.
I guess I'm saying that at a time when traditional routes to journalism careers are being questioned, exceptional journalists can create their own destiny.
When Sedna was discovered, its exceptional orbit raised questions as to its origin.
"You recognise the case is receiving a measure of exceptional treatment … the question is just how exceptional".
Such hearings are highly unusual, but can be granted if there is a "question of exceptional importance" at issue.
"Clearly, these are exceptional individuals, but the question is, are they overdoing it?" For such an extreme athlete, Mr. Dodd seems strikingly tranquil.
In Hisham Matar's exceptional first novel, this question transcends the psychological to yield something rare in contemporary fiction: a sophisticated storybook inhabited by archetypes, told with a 9-year-old's logic, written with the emphatic and memorable lyricism of verse.
