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" No one has put in harder training to become a royal bride than the glossy-haired Kate Middleton. "
Tina Brown
Royal
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" 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. "
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" If a star football player can have a mythical girlfriend, why can't I have a mythical Congress? "
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" Disinterested public service has become, just so... what's the phrase, 'old school.' "
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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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" One phrase I would dearly like to consign to the can is 'Out of the Box.' The thinking that told us we should invade Iraq and that house prices never decline may have been out of the box, but it put us into the ditch. We have been badly misled by people who persuaded us that they understood things we didn't. "
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" No one I know has a job anymore. They've got gigs. "
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" Some weddings take longer to plan than others. "
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" What has happened to America's survival instincts? "
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" The vaults of Buckingham palace are groaning with priceless, useless freebies from foreign dignitaries. "
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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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" 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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" 'The Daily Beast' competes in the highly Darwinian media world filled with hyper-smart, highly adaptive, tool-using people with opposable thumbs. "
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" The comptroller of New York City ought to have all the characteristics of a major corporation's CFO - quiet rigor, obsessive care for detail, incorruptible judgment, an ability to work assiduously behind the scenes with the key stakeholders. "
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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. "
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Beautiful
British
" Everyone is someone else's catalyst for selling something these days. "
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" Now everyone leaking and tweeting and posting on everyone else is the acknowledged way to get ahead in the 21st century. "
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Now
" Servility always curdles into rage in the end. "
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" 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. "
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" 'Worshipping in private,' as Obama does, comes off as just another form of annoying elitism. "
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" 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. "
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People
Army
Job
" 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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" 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. "
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" 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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" It's one of the biggest fibs going that American newspapers are now being forced to give up their commitment to investigative reporting. Most of them gave up long ago as their greedy managements squeezed every cent out of the bottom line and turned their newsrooms into eunuchs. "
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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. "
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" TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling. "
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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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She
" There is nobody more boring than the undefeated. "
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" Magazine articles are the new books. "
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" Obama fans become more and more glum that he keeps flubbing the very role he was expected to be so good at: Therapist to the nation. The Great Comforter. "
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