At that very moment Wes Welker was downstairs in the stadium, moist-eyed, putting the blame on himself.

WSJ: Gisele's Super-Sized Super Gaffe

Mr Clinton reminded the predominantly black and Latino audience that Houston's mayor, Bob Lanier listening moist-eyed in the front row had as a student at the University of Texas in the 1940s taught law to blacks in his off-campus digs.

ECONOMIST: Race and education

And there is a somewhat moist-eyed account of a peace symposium convened by the conductor Daniel Barenboim that called for more European mediation a call in which one cannot help but hear a subconscious lament by the eminent and worldly participants that Jerusalem and Damascus were not more like Vienna and Paris in the first place.

ECONOMIST: Israel and Palestine without peace