The trouble with invoking neutrality, as many who objected to the program did, is that the next step is to demand "balance" and the equal representation of all viewpoints, precisely the demand made by the "progressive" (read hopelessly confused) officials when they complained that the event as planned excluded "alternative positions" and was therefore "one-sided".
Congress now caps visas for foreign workers, a clunky system that does not match supply too precisely with demand.
Here's Marco Rubio yesterday (via Ezra Klein): The first part is, of course, simply a lie: numerous reports tell us that McConnell did in fact make precisely that demand.
This is heady material, to be sure, yet Ms. Maione says it was precisely that demanding political angle that attracted her to "Quartett" when she first saw one of Müller's productions of it a decade ago in Paris.
The company gets more than a third of its sales from Western Europe, which is precisely where demand for its snazzy phones is slackening.
He told Forbes.com that Sony Ericsson would do better to start off modestly, aiming more for the mid-tier phones while also keeping costs under control; its portfolio currently favors flashy phones in mature Western markets, precisely where demand is waning.
But it is precisely these radical demands which prevent the regime from doing any internal deals that compromise the popular demand for freedom.
The Beethoven performance was perfectly competent, but the Turnage was utterly convincing, its roiling energy exploding off the stage, its awesome demands precisely realized.
Today's revolutionaries and activists have precisely the same demands for social justice, national dignity and representative government as the opponents of military rule did six decades ago.
An effective staging of "The Goat" demands precisely what Mr. Albee summed up in the title to another play: a delicate balance.
