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"Hand of history touches Ulster" was the Guardian of London's main headline Friday, echoing a remark by British Prime Minister Tony Blair that "the hand of history is at last lifting the burden of terror and violence and shaping the future of the people of Northern Ireland."
Du Bois wrote, "Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground."
His home, too, is standing conferring status, as is his wife who regularly has her lifting face-lift to make sure she is sufficiently liftée to face up to his friends.
Tai chi involves moving your body slowly in circular patterns, shifting weight from foot to foot, and lifting your arms in rounded gestures, all at a pace slower than you ever thought possible.
It may have been the doughy look of earnest concentration on the young man's ample cheeks, or it may have been his habit, at the conclusion of every dazzling, double-stopped arpeggio, of deftly lifting his bow off the strings with a satisfied air--a happy pastry chef, pleased and relieved to have given the world one more perfect Linzer torte.