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" Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments. "
Strategy
System
Weakness
" After so much reality TV and confessional celebrity interviews, the public is tired of accessible stars. Who needs them to be 'Just Like Us?' 'Just Like Us' means just as boring as we are. "
Boring
Celebrity
Reality
" Almost every media organization is doing something with live events now, and that's because they feel they can break through that way. "
Live
Doing
Media
" Along with all those books about Lincoln, Obama might read some biographies of Napoleon. The general who established the Legion d'Honneur understood that people fought as much for medals as for morals. "
Medals
People
Morals
" American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them. "
Up
American
Dying
" An enormous number of mothers in the U.S. are working double time, graveyard shifts, and more than one job just to put food on the table for their kids. "
Table
Double
Time
" Any great, long career has at least one flameout in it. "
Any
Great
Long
" Anyone aspiring to literary greatness should read 'New Grub Street' and weep. "
Should
Read
New
" A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James's 'The Portrait of a Lady.' "
Heart
Henry
Lady
" Back in his Chicago Senate days, when he was seeking greater black credibility, Obama was happy enough to attend the Reverend Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ. "
Chicago
Happy
Enough
" Beast Books will be longer than conventional long-form magazine articles but shorter than conventional nonfiction books. They will be published digitally and distributed on multiple platforms, and will soon thereafter be available as handy paperbacks. "
Nonfiction
Will
Magazine
" Being president, you may have more power than anyone else in the country, but you quickly discover that you have much, much less than you thought you'd have going in. You're hamstrung in ways you never dreamed of. "
Country
May
Never
" Bill Clinton, talking about the need to financially empower wives and mothers in regressive countries, once remarked that women have 'the responsibility gene.' No one has that gene more markedly than his wife. "
Women
Responsibility
Talking
" By the end of 'Game Change,' one feels that the candidates' few happy moments are those when they 'lose it.' "
Change
Moments
End
" Captain Richard Phillips of the good ship Maersk Alabama - and Sully Sullenberger splashing down his crippled airliner in the Hudson River - broke through the poisonous smog of economic depression and Wall Street skullduggery with a reminder that pure individual heroism is a daily occurrence if we know where to look for it. "
Ship
River
Daily
" CBS's Ed Murrow may have been over-celebrated as the principled observer for the masses, fair yet unafraid to take on the bullies. "
Take
Masses
Fair
" Celebrity these days is completely for sale; it's not remotely mysterious. But there's something that remains glamorous and mysterious about royalty. "
Mysterious
Days
Celebrity
" Clinton passed his first budget without a single Republican vote in either the House or the Senate. Before it led to the longest economic expansion in U.S. history, it led to a Democratic defeat in the 1994 midterms. "
Defeat
History
House
" Corporate communications will become a high-tech art, just as political communication is for Obama. "
Political
Art
Communication
" Disinterested public service has become, just so... what's the phrase, 'old school.' "
School
Old
Public Service
" Does Obama create confusion on purpose? "
Does
Confusion
Purpose
" Economics has become as riveting as politics. "
Economics
Politics
Become
" Editorial outfits are now advertising agencies. "
Outfits
Editorial
Advertising
" Even as the whole world tries to hang on to its job, there is also this weird parallel sense - almost a covert longing - that the old corrupt structures on which that job depends needs to be, ought to be, swept away. "
Corrupt
World
Weird
" Everyone is someone else's catalyst for selling something these days. "
Everyone
Days
Else
" Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial. "
You
Wall
Ethos
" Feminism in some ways has become quite dormant. "
Ways
Quite
Some
" For a guy who believes in hope, Obama doesn't seem to be able to spread much of it around. How can he? We know too much now about the hollowness of institutions and the frailty of their leaders. "
Now
Leaders
Know
" For Sarah Palin, the least experienced on the world stage, the stress of maintaining the fiction that she was qualified to be vice president sent her over the deep end almost immediately. She went off on a ferocious spending spree that might have killed a lesser woman. Katie Couric's straightforward questions unraveled her. "
Deep
World
She
" Franklin D. Roosevelt was fortunate: He didn't take office until nearly four years after the Wall Street crash, by which time the Republicans' responsibility for the Depression was taken for granted. "
Responsibility
Street
Time
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