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" Any great, long career has at least one flameout in it. "

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" I don't actually go to newsstands anymore. "

" Oprah's stock in trade has always been her powerful unmediated connection. She could feel your pain and empower you to talk about it. "

" Practices such as arranged marriages and restrictions on girls attending school have deep roots, and changing them is a gradual process. Sometimes these problems seem very far away from us here in the United States. But let's remember that even into the 20th century, an American woman could not own property or vote in national elections. "

" It always seemed to me ironic that the McCain campaign kept referring sneeringly to Obama's meager resume - 'a mere community organizer!' - before he entered electoral politics. It was Obama's experience as a community organizer that proved such a killer app when he applied that skill to the Internet. "

" It's almost as if Putin is brilliant, really - he's outfoxing Obama all the time. "

" It's actually harder than it looks to be a good pundit on the air. You've got to have stuff to say. "

" Corporate communications will become a high-tech art, just as political communication is for Obama. "

" The first black president was a hotter plot line than the first woman president. "

" Schwarzenegger is big, he's noisy, he's larger than life, and he's earned the credibility to be cast for the role of America's Green superhero. "

" When Obama dispenses with that dread sobriquet 'professorial,' he does it by being, well, more professorial. "

" Interior Secretary Ken Salazar turned out to be all hat and no cattle with his sorry oversight of the Minerals Management Service. "

" Plenty of couples snipe at each other in sometimes embarrassing ways in front of company. "

" Prince William's smiling hostility toward the press is his non-negotiable core value. I am told he is so protective of his privacy he has been known to plant false tips with friends he distrusts and watch the media to see if they play out. "

" Where did the inspiring Obama of the campaign go, that Facebook pied piper who friended the whole world with this update: 'Change you can believe in.' What happened to him? "

" What America is thirsting for now is a battalion of strong, down-to-earth 'doers' - managers, frontline activists, business and social entrepreneurs engaged in tackling America's manifold problems of unemployment, education, and competitive slouch. "

" It's Obama's bad luck that he got elected just as the mayhem of the foreclosures, the banking collapse, and the General Motors disaster was accelerating the surge in unemployment to warp speed. "

" To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred. "

" Editorial outfits are now advertising agencies. "

" The no-secrets era of social media makes one consider the built-in risk factor of nominating high-testosterone men to positions of power at all. Everyone is under too much scrutiny now to take a chance on candidates who suddenly blow up into a comic meme, a punchline, a ribald hashtag. "

" Obama's stern demeanor punctuated by intermittent flashes of his wide, relaxing smile is his greatest weapon in defusing pent-up angst. "

" American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them. "

" Glenn Beck is Rush redux - Limbaugh with liposuction, partying like it's still 1993. "

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" Servility always curdles into rage in the end. "

" Disinterested public service has become, just so... what's the phrase, 'old school.' "

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" The British Isles are awash with the choice of beautiful historic churches, abbeys, and cathedrals where one king or another has tied the knot and bestowed a royal precedent. "

" The vaults of Buckingham palace are groaning with priceless, useless freebies from foreign dignitaries. "