The ability to influence and persuade others is not gifted to a chosen few.

影响和说服他人的能力并非上天赐予特定的几个人。

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However, others claim we are not as well connected as we think, and that a few quality friendships are more important that a host of loose links.

然而，有些人提出我们没有想象的那么好的联系，几个要好的朋友比一堆松散的联系要重要的多。

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When I and a few others had lunch with him, he specifically said, "We're not going to do nation building."

当我和其他几名记者与他共进午餐时，他明确地说“我们不会搞国家重建”。

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And outside of Pete Peterson and his top crier David Walker, George Soros, and a few others, there is not yet the hue and cry, the will, or any pragmatic plan to deal with this economic reality, which threatens to fast become a geopolitical disaster.

FORBES: Food For Thought

But it is not enough and Starbucks, Citibank, Google, Banana Republic and a few others are calling on us to do more to revive the American economy.

FORBES: The American Dream in Danger - Ideas From Starbucks And Howard Schultz

Now George Bush got more black votes--a higher percentage this time, this last election, than he did when he first ran, but it's--still you can say about 90 percent of the black people do not support him, despite appointments such as Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice and a few others.

NPR: Roundtable: Voting Rights Act, NABJ Conference