HERE IS THE WOMAN who was hounded out of the Obama campaign for calling Hillary Clinton “a monster” in an Irish newspaper.
SAMANTHA POWER, who amazed the room at the TED conference last February when she outlined what seemed, at the time, something incredibly bold and fantastic: an Obama foreign policy–clear-eyed, profoundly moral, and realistic.
FOR ALL SORTS OF REASONS, I hope she is part of Obama’s State Department. Maybe as secretary? Is that role filled yet?
That is all.
1781, BATH, ENGLAND: German-born astronomer William Herschel becomes the first modern scientist to discover a new planet within our solar system. He is not taken seriously at first. After all, the three “new planets” he had previously “discovered” turned out to be the sun, a fly on the lens of his telescope, and Earth, respectively. But this time he got it right: Uranus is a planet, and since our last writing, it has been admitted to THE CLUB OF PLANETS. (a)
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(a). Please see page 147 of The Areas of My Expertise under the heading “The Club of Debated Planets.”
