Some of us are exploring ideas, re-examining history, smashing Olympic records, getting on with our interesting lives.
Recent seasons in New York and London suggest a hunger among audiences for plays that directly take on our interesting times: "Stuff Happens," "Fallujah," "Guantanamo," "My Name Is Rachel Corrie," "The Trial of Tony Blair".
There were some strange juxtapositions, as when Bill Clinton declared that the difference between America and its adversaries was that "our common humanity is more important than all of our interesting differences".
"We have to remind people that the people we lost on that airplane gave their entire lives to the proposition that our common humanity matters a hell of a lot more than our interesting differences," he said.
Therefore, each in our own way, we must all take up the cause for which Yitzhak Rabin gave his life: building a shared future in which our common humanity is more important than our interesting differences.
Our interesting results might be useful in the design of optical fiber-based amplifiers and lasers.
