This week I have a voice.
You know, last week I didn't have a voice.
It was bad.
I think you still had a wonderful voice.
It was just showing the strain of delivering the news to America.
Exactly.
Don't blame the messenger.
The west credits ancient Greece for that lesson.
Plutarch writing around the year 100, Sophocles five centuries before that.
Well, everything old is new again.
Hi, I'm Ayesha Rascoe.
And I'm Scott Simon with Up first from NPR News.
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