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Initially, before the modern state of Iraq was created, there were three separate provinces here: a Shiite in the south, a largely Sunni one in the middle, and a Kurdish one in the north.
Richard Engel
Three
Before
State
Sunni
Were
Kurdish
South
Iraq
Provinces
North
Modern
Middle
Created
Separate
Initially
Largely
Here
Egypt is the most populous Arab nation, the seat of Sunni Islamic doctrine, and has tremendous political, religious and social influence on the rest of the region. For better or worse, it will lead the rest of the Middle East by example. So goes Egypt, so goes the region.
Richard Engel
Better
Political
Will
Rest
Example
Nation
Tremendous
Worse
Arab
East
Sunni
Religious
Lead
Most
Doctrine
Islamic
Goes
Egypt
Middle
Influence
Middle East
Region
Social
Seat
When you look at - when you talk to people in Africa and across the Middle East, they're not satisfied with the way things are going. Sure, this idea of democracy was injected into the region, but it has brought mostly chaos.
Richard Engel
Democracy
You
People
Satisfied
Chaos
Way
East
Brought
Idea
Look
Talk
Mostly
Sure
Going
Africa
Middle
Middle East
Region
Across
Things
When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that.
Richard LaGravenese
Time
Mom
Family
Me
Coffee
Men
Three
Young
Older
Took
Would
About
Having
Had
Absorb
Since
Talk
She
Around
Lot
Forever
Sisters
Middle
Afternoon
Youngest
Her
Two
To be sure, many of the Sykes-Picot borders reflected deals cut in Europe rather than local demographic or historical realities. But that hardly makes the Middle East unique: Most borders around the world owe their legacy less to thoughtful design or popular choice than to some mixture of violence, ambition, geography, and chance.
Richard N. Haass
World
Ambition
Design
Local
Thoughtful
East
Borders
Some
Rather
Most
Sure
Around
Demographic
Makes
Deals
Geography
Mixture
Historical
Reflected
Legacy
Than
Owe
Middle
Middle East
Realities
Cut
Choice
Less
Europe
Many
Popular
Unique
Hardly
Violence
Chance
For too long, America tolerated a 'democratic exception' in the Muslim Middle East. As long as governments were friendly and backed regional stability, there was no need for outsiders to encourage representative government.
Richard N. Haass
Government
Long
Too
Backed
East
Muslim
Exception
Outsiders
Democratic
Were
Encourage
Governments
Friendly
America
Stability
Representative
Middle
Middle East
Regional
Tolerated
Need
Middle East history is replete with examples of missed and lost chances to make peace.
Richard N. Haass
History
Peace
Lost
East
Examples
Missed
Make
Replete
Middle
Middle East
Chances
I am confident in saying that Oberlin did more for me than vice versa. I took a fantastic class in religion, which led me to archaeology, which got me to the Middle East, which led me to international relations, which launched me on my career.
Richard N. Haass
Saying
Religion
Me
Class
Vice Versa
International Relations
Took
Relations
East
Archaeology
More
Got
Am
Versa
Led
Than
Did
Confident
Middle
Vice
Middle East
Which
Fantastic
International
Career
I think the Republican Party has moved substantially to the right, particularly on social issues... And the Democratic Party has moved to the left over the past decades. So we've got a lot more room in the middle.
Richard Painter
Party
Past
Think
More
Over
Particularly
Democratic
Democratic Party
Got
Issues
Lot
Left
Decades
Moved
Middle
Substantially
Republican
Republican Party
Social
Room
Social Issues
Right
I was a middle child. I grew up in Brooklyn with three sisters and a brother. You know what that means: everybody is constantly fighting with everybody and you are in the middle of the storm trying to make peace. That is your life. Making everybody work and play well together.
Richard Parsons
Life
Work
You
Together
Peace
Three
Fighting
Everybody
Brooklyn
Constantly
Brother
Know
Well
Make
Making
Up
Sisters
Child
Trying
Middle
Grew
Storm
Means
Your
Play
Many problems are so complex that even if we had the money to fix them, we wouldn't know how to do it. Fixing inner-city schools, reducing obesity, creating peace in the Middle East are just a few examples.
Richard Thaler
Peace
Money
Problems
Few
Complex
East
Obesity
Examples
Had
Know
Schools
How
Reducing
Fix
Fixing
Just
Middle
Middle East
Them
Creating
Many
Even
We need a positive economic agenda that invests in the innovation and growth that will create jobs for middle class families and ensure that America remains the world leader.
Rick Larsen
Positive
Class
Innovation
World
Will
Leader
Ensure
Jobs
Economic
Remains
Families
America
Middle
Middle Class
Agenda
Create
World Leader
Growth
Need
Back when I taught middle school and wrote adult mysteries, my students often asked me why I wasn't writing for kids. I never had a good answer for them. It took me a long time to realize they were right.
Rick Riordan
Time
Good
Me
Writing
School
Long
Mysteries
Long Time
Took
Back
Kids
Adult
Never
Students
Had
Wrote
Answer
Were
Often
Taught
Middle
Middle School
Them
Realize
Asked
Why
Right
We need to understand that in the end, if we're going to make a positive difference in the future, we can't have election cycles where one side, the middle and the right side, they talk trash.
Rick Santelli
Positive
Future
Election
Side
Right Side
Talk
Make
Understand
End
Going
Difference
Middle
Where
In The End
Cycles
Trash
Right
Need
In the middle of the Great Depression, George Jenkins, Jr. left his job at a grocery store and decided he would open up his own store. I am sure many people thought Mr. Jenkins was crazy, but he had a dream. Today, his chain of stores employs 127,000 Floridians and is the largest employee-owned company in the country. We know it as Publix.
Rick Scott
Today
Depression
Great
Crazy
People
Job
Thought
Country
Own
Great Depression
Dream
Would
Open
Had
He
Know
Employs
Sure
Am
George
His
Left
Up
Middle
Store
Stores
Decided
Grocery
Grocery Store
Many
Chain
Company
Largest
I have a short attention span. And when I'm in the middle of one thing, I'm then drawn to the next thing.
Ricky Reed
Attention Span
Drawn
One Thing
Attention
Short
Short Attention Span
Middle
Span
Then
Next
Next Thing
Thing
Egypt was - as it is now - a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographically between Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
Ridley Scott
Result
East
Crossroads
Between
Cultures
Egypt
Africa
Middle
Being
Middle East
Confluence
Europe
Now
Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
Rita Mae Brown
Myself
Thirties
Consider
Until
Did
Middle
Novelist
I don't want to push the envelope. Let the envelope stay in the middle of the table. I'll just make you laugh.
Rita Rudner
You
Laugh
Stay
Table
Push
Envelope
Make
Just
Middle
Want
Barcelona players know how to summon up Messi into the game, letting him rest in periods of the match and then using his services at vital moments when he shows up in the middle of the pitch to create his magical plays.
Rivaldo
Game
Rest
Summon
Vital
Magical
He
Know
Periods
Him
Messi
Match
How
His
Up
Pitch
Middle
Then
Barcelona
Create
Moments
Using
Shows
Letting
Services
Players
Plays
Wherever I go - like, I go to elementary schools, I go to middle schools - wherever it is, if it's in Florida, if it's up in New England, I just feel like wherever I am, the kids always go crazy whenever they see me.
Rob Gronkowski
Me
Crazy
Kids
See
Feel
New
Like
Schools
New England
Always
Am
Go
Up
Just
Middle
Whenever
Wherever
England
Elementary
Florida
'Fowl Space' was a lovechild of boredom. While in class, two of the developers started passing designs back and forth. Somewhere in the middle of all that ink and crumpled paper, a chicken in a space helmet was born and thus we have 'Fowl Space.'
Rob Manuel
Class
Space
Somewhere
Back
Paper
Boredom
Born
Developers
Thus
Passing
Chicken
Middle
While
Forth
Helmet
Ink
Designs
Started
Two
To figure out what people think, look at the stories that they tell. We might never get away from the image of Sheldon from 'The Big Bang Theory' breaking down in the middle of the store, not knowing which console to buy, but we can see in TV and movies how regular characters are more and more starting to play games.
Rob Manuel
Buy
People
Big
Not Knowing
Down
Think
Console
Out
Tell
Characters
TV
See
More
More And More
Never
Look
Knowing
Big Bang
How
Get
Bang
Middle
Store
Stories
Which
Breaking
Movies
Might
Regular
Figure
Games
Theory
Away
Play
Image
Starting
There was a time when the community that was on the Net was homogenous and civilized. Now it's not. We're in the middle of chaos. It may calm down. But the alternative is that there's a total meltdown of the system and that it becomes unusable. That would be a catastrophe.
Robert Cailliau
Time
Calm
Community
Down
Chaos
Meltdown
System
Would
Would-Be
Total
Net
Civilized
Catastrophe
Alternative
Calm Down
Becomes
May
Middle
Now
There is no question that al-Qaida operatives are currently active in Iraq. A premature exit before the threat they represent has been dealt with would endanger America and the prospects of eventual peace in the Middle East.
Robert Foster Bennett
Peace
Before
Active
East
Has-Been
Would
Threat
No Question
Prospects
Dealt
Been
Question
Iraq
Exit
Endanger
America
Represent
Currently
Middle
Middle East
Premature
Eventual
So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending.
Robert Fripp
You
Down
Other
Meet
Station
Something
Area
Simultaneously
Particular
End
Up
Going
Orchestra
Depending
Middle
Different
Railway
Playing
Set
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