Android-powered devices carrying the BlackBerry name won’t be affected. For some, it’s a farewell to an era when BlackBerries dominated airport lounges and the West Wing.
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“My entire politics is premised on the fact that we are these tiny organisms on this little speck floating in the middle of space,” Barack Obama told me, sitting in his office in Washington, D.C.
To be fair, I was the one who had introduced the cosmic scale, asking how proof of alien life would change his politics. But Obama, in a philosophical mood, used the question to trace his view of humanity. “The differences we have on this planet are real,” he said. “They’re profound. And they cause enormous tragedy as well as joy. But we’re just a bunch of humans with doubts and confusion. We do the best we can. And the best thing we can do is treat each other better, because we’re all we got.”
Films! Novels! Springsteen! The Obamas and Clintons seem to be having the time of their lives.
Karen Heller, The Washington Post
March 5, 2021
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Former presidents long slipped into a life soaked in sepia. They farmed on bucolic homesteads with graceful names. They golfed. Eventually, inking memoirs became standard post-presidency practice, sometimes because they needed money, odd as that seems today. There is nothing more pathetic in life than a former president, said John Quincy Adams, who went on to serve in the U.S. House for almost two decades after the White House. After the White House, what is there to do but drink? asked Franklin Pierce, who did, prodigiously.