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Push comes to shove?

On the issue of Israel’s security, Obama said he hasn’t just “talked the talk.” He argued that he has also “walked the walk.”

He also cited the years he spent in Indonesia as a child as preparing him for the diplomatic challenges awaiting the next president.

“If I go to Jakarta and address the largest Muslim country on earth, I can say, ‘Apa kabar,’ - you know, ‘How are you doing?’ - and they can recognize that I understand their common humanity,” Obama said. “That is a strength, and it allows me to say things to them that other presidents might not be able to say. And that’s part of what’s promising, I think, about this presidency.”

- Obama Queried about Support for Israel When ‘Push Comes to Shove’, ABCNews.com, February 9, 2009.

2. Today’s row over new technology apparently threatening the very concept of privacy has its origins in the late 19th century when two American lawyers, Samuel D Warren and Louis D Brandeis (what was it about the middle D?), wrote a hugely influential article in the Harvard Law Review railing against the way “modern enterprise and invention” were being used by the press “to satisfy a prurient taste” for the details of sexual relations.

The pair of young attorneys said newspapers with their “instantaneous photographs” were “overstepping in every direction the obvious bounds of propriety and decency” and argued the press had “invaded the sacred precincts of private and domestic life”.