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" Few Westerners know Iran as well as Robin Wright: her first trip there as a journalist was in 1973, and she has covered every important milestone since, from the Islamic revolution and the hostage crisis to the more recent staring contest with the West over Tehran's nuclear program. "

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People

Life

" It's the experts in adolescent development who wax most emphatic about the value of family meals, for it's in the teenage years that this daily investment pays some of its biggest dividends. "

" We are bombarded with reasons to stay inside: we're afraid of mosquitoes because of West Nile and grass because of pesticides and sun because of cancer and sunscreen because of vitamin-D deficiency. "

" When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped. "

" People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents. "

" If anything, the power of the cover of 'Time' has increased as the media landscape has atomized. "

" On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues. "

" I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen. "

" Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear. "

" As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to. "

" Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us. "

Nancy Gibbs

Want

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" What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way. "

" All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends. "

" Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room. For most, meals were informal, a kind of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down. "

" A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon. "

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Power

" After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault. "

" The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5. "

" Hillary Clinton wants to leave behind No Child Left Behind. "

" New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola. "

" Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting. "

" There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list. "

" I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm? "

" We want laws to be applied predictably. "

" Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will. "

" Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust and fear and anger. "

" What cultural DNA remains from those first Puritan forays onto American soil may be our love of a fresh start. "

" Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual. "

" We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power. "

" Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes. "

" Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes. "