The young political figures who arose from Tahrir's revolutionary youth councils in the weeks and months after Mubarak's fall devoted far too much energy to squabbling and petty infighting.
Even in July, as Mr. Bush prepared for a month at his ranch, his aides were talking optimistically about a fall devoted to transforming Iraq quickly into a model democracy at the heart of the Middle East, and making its transition to a peaceful nation contagious throughout the region.
The fall version, devoted to improvisation, is usually a little more untamed.
PERHAPS more than anyplace else, life in the suburbs is a calendar of family rituals: Little League parades, birthday parties, fall Saturdays devoted to soccer, the rolling of the first snowball in the backyard.
The director of accomplished Broadway revivals of "Long Day's Journey Into Night" and "A Moon for the Misbegotten," Mr. Falls has devoted the Goodman's winter season to an expansive O'Neill festival that also includes visits from major international companies, like the Wooster Group and Ivo Van Hove's Toneelgroep Amsterdam.
The restaurant has added two fall menus, one devoted to cepes ($160), the other to white truffles from Alba ($250).
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said yesterday that he did not agree that the extra time to be added to the school day this fall should be devoted to the worst-performing students.
When the regime fell, the Internationalist Team devoted itself to the rebuilding of civil society, training local psychoanalysts to promote mental health from the ground up.
Of course, all this quasi-silliness is light relief for me, as I'm a terrible scaredy-cat and The Fall is a series devoted to the stalking and grisly murder of brunettes who are bold or daft enough not to carry an assault rifle at all times, even in bed.
The relation between the abiogenic and biogenic photosyntheses is discussed in the accompanying article, in a section devoted to decline and fall of the Zinc world.
From the start of this year's meeting, which is being live streamed on conservative Web sites, it has been clear that many of the attendees, and some of the presenters, too, regard Jeb Bush as someone who falls into the "insufficiently devoted" category — members of which are often referred to as RINOs (Republicans In Name Only).
