After the blowout parties in Tampa and Charlotte comes the hangover, and the sober reckoning of where things stand.
By John Cassidy September 10 , 2012After the blowout parties in Tampa and Charlotte comes the hangover, and the sober reckoning of where things stand.
In the sober reckoning of the RAND Corporation, for instance, the gross revenue that all Mexican cartels derive from exporting drugs to the United States amounts to only $6.6 billion.
Socialism For A Sceptical Age, to be published by Polity Press, is both a sober reckoning and a hopeful prognosis of the prospects for socialism in the new world order.
While Heartbeat Opera was radically reconfiguring Puccini and Bizet, New York City Opera was announcing its 2017-18 season, which, depending on which press piece you read, was either a burst of promise or a sober reckoning with reality.
25 April (Columbia) Books by Boyd Tonkin We Had It So Good by Linda Grant If the coming year proves to be a time of sober reckoning and hard scrutiny of the recent past, then Linda Grant's new novel will help us keep the score.
May this week's celebration of the Day of the African Child, with this sober reckoning, be viewed 24 years from now as a turning point, as we rededicate ourselves to a seriously resourced effort to protect all our children, our planet's most precious asset.
As Prof. Eva Bellin and Prof. Peter Krause in the Middle East Brief from Brandeis University found in their study of the Syria situation, "The distillation of historical experience with civil war and insurgency, along with a sober reckoning of conditions on the ground in Syria, make clear that limited intervention of this sort will not serve the moral impulse that animates it.
These are sober achievements for sobering times.
