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" If a star football player can have a mythical girlfriend, why can't I have a mythical Congress? "
Tina Brown
Girlfriend
Congress
Football
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" By the end of 'Game Change,' one feels that the candidates' few happy moments are those when they 'lose it.' "
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" What is new is the multiplying reach and volume of the Internet, concentrating the toxicity of destructive emotions and circulating them in the political bloodstream with unparalleled velocity. "
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" Hillary Clinton has spent her entire career looking bug-eyed with incredulity when an interviewer asks her whatever question she most expects at that moment. "
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" The digitally native generation has no idea what has been lost to the freedom of intimacy that has no fear of being recorded. "
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" It's actually harder than it looks to be a good pundit on the air. You've got to have stuff to say. "
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" No one is asking for an Oprah in Chief. Anyhow, Obama is too chilly by nature ever to be convincing as a human care package. "
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" Obamacare is the wildly complex Rube Goldberg contraption it is because getting the legislation through Congress required so many political tradeoffs and so many unavoidable deals with so many vested interests. But that's no excuse. "
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" The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations? "
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" 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. "
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Air
Great
" The natural creativity of the staff morphed 'The Daily Beast' very fast into what has become a newsroom. Aggregation lives on the Cheat Sheet, the video player, and in the breaking news slot in the first big box. The rest is all original, generated by Beast writers and editors. "
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Rest
" A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James's 'The Portrait of a Lady.' "
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" The hazard of confessional books is how fast the world moves on while they're written. "
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" It's so thrilling to be intimidated. "
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" 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. "
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America
" 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. "
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Spring
Now
Need
" Obama, for all his brilliance, has no real, felt understanding of management structures or of business. "
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Management
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His
" In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train. "
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TV
Feel
Train
" I think that big, sort of theatrical relaunches tend to set you up for failure and hype. "
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Big
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" One of the the great things about having had something that didn't work out is: So what? I am fine. "
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Great Things
Work
Great
" 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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Deep
World
She
" The first black president was a hotter plot line than the first woman president. "
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Line
Black
Woman
" Movie stars today are as greedy for additional kids as bankers are for bonuses. It's the new badge of authenticity. "
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Greedy
Today
New
" Not everyone has the survival skills of William Jefferson Clinton. "
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Jefferson
Survival
Skills
" 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. "
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Business
Education
Strong
" Obama has figured out the best method to prepare the way for his verbal Houdini acts: Use political noise as the tune-up din before the aria. Perhaps his body temperature is so low, it sometimes takes him too long to break out the song. "
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Long
Best
" Unlike his predecessors, Obama is not big on 'Masterpiece Theatre' nostalgia. "
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Big
Masterpiece
Nostalgia
" 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. "
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Together
Words
Clever
" In all the debate about Afghanistan, we don't hear much about our obligation to the wretched lives of Afghan women. They are being treated as collateral damage as the big boys discuss geopolitical goals. "
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Women
Big
Debate
" Oprah's stock in trade has always been her powerful unmediated connection. She could feel your pain and empower you to talk about it. "
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" 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. "
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Understanding
Key