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" 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. "

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" I'm impressed with how 'Newsweek's' outstanding staff has continued to put out a lively, well-informed magazine after the departure of their tireless editor, Jon Meacham. "

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" It is ironic that American women now need to be fortified by the inspiration of the women of the Arab Spring, who risked so much to win basic human rights. "

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

" Reputation is a timely subject, now that nobody has one. "

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

" I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment. "

" Obama achieved something in his first year with health care that successive presidents have been unable to achieve. "

" Owning news makes you important; it gives you a seat at the table. "

" In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train. "

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" You can get an interview with anyone overseas on the basis of being part of 'Newsweek.' It still has a great deal of impact. "

" Obama can't change his cool disposition, though it would be nice if he lost the vaguely grudging air he gives off that problems of management get in the way of ideas. "

" To people I know in the bottom income brackets, living paycheck to paycheck, the Gig Economy has been old news for years. What's new is the way it's hit the demographic that used to assume that a college degree from an elite school was the passport to job security. "

" In the world of screens, we're all tired of screens. That's why I think that live events have become so popular. "

" It's interesting how the view from abroad can shift and remake perceptions of homegrown celebrities, the ones who are part of the gross domestic product. "

" 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. "

" Obama's gift for delivering set-piece oratorical tours de force had special resonance to Americans fed up with a president who could hardly string two words together without a collision of syntax and whose idea of clever was the single entendre. "

" Obama's great asset has always been an ability to maintain his air of authority without being baritone about it. He can be boring, but he is never ridiculous or pompous. "

" What does it take to be a great social chronicler? Perhaps one of the key attributes is an understanding of what it feels like to fall from grace. "

" With so many part-time people on - and not on - the job, corporate America has started to feel like it's on a permanent maternity leave. Colleagues are an amorphous, free-floating army of rotating waifs whose voicemails are clogged with plaintive requests from their own offices for missing information. "

" Celebrity these days is completely for sale; it's not remotely mysterious. But there's something that remains glamorous and mysterious about royalty. "

" The digitally native generation has no idea what has been lost to the freedom of intimacy that has no fear of being recorded. "

" We've heard a lot in recent polemic about how to win the fight for the corner office. But pushing up against a glass ceiling is practically a luxury when you consider the millions of women who can feel the floor dropping beneath their feet. "

" Obama, for all his brilliance, has no real, felt understanding of management structures or of business. "

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

" One of the the great things about having had something that didn't work out is: So what? I am fine. "

" I wish my daughter wasn't spending time thinking of Kim Kardashian or Rihanna. "

" A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James's 'The Portrait of a Lady.' "

" Washington's Alfalfa Club dinner is a populist's nightmare. "

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

" Perhaps Obama is often slow to nail controversies because he needs time to live inside them for a while in his head. It's unnerving for the rest of us, but even the haters, one feels, are made to think more deeply than they'd like before they return to the bickering and the games. "