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" The women of Afghanistan, left behind as their men fought, did what the women of World War II did - used their wits and resourcefulness to preserve some semblance of civilization. "

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" Perhaps the most damaging aspect of the Obamacare tech nightmare is how wholly predictable it all was. Anyone who has been involved in building the most rudimentary of web operations knows nothing ever works as it's supposed to. Even awesome Apple, mighty Microsoft, and gargantuan Google miss deadlines. "

Tina Brown

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Web

" The digital explosion has been so explosive. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Your normal Wall Street big-swinging Richard has enough of a lingering moral compass to at least tell himself that his wizardry benefits somebody or something besides himself. You know, his cleverness makes capital markets more efficient. It provides credit to productive enterprise. Whatever. "

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

" 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. "

" If a star football player can have a mythical girlfriend, why can't I have a mythical Congress? "

" No one I know has a job anymore. They've got gigs. "

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

" I just wanted to have fun for myself - I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions. "

Tina Brown

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Myself

" The number one way of becoming powerful in Washington is by becoming the 'Washington Post.' "

" Some weddings take longer to plan than others. "

" Almost every media organization is doing something with live events now, and that's because they feel they can break through that way. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Unlike his predecessors, Obama is not big on 'Masterpiece Theatre' nostalgia. "

" Servility always curdles into rage in the end. "

" 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. "

" The Taliban knows they have more to fear from an educated girl than an American drone. "

Tina Brown

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Fear

" Editorial outfits are now advertising agencies. "

" Anyone aspiring to literary greatness should read 'New Grub Street' and weep. "

" 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. "

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

" I keep thinking about how terrifyingly vulnerable women are in so many countries. "

" Along with all those books about Lincoln, Obama might read some biographies of Napoleon. The general who established the Legion d'Honneur understood that people fought as much for medals as for morals. "

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

" I've always been very enamored of European newsmagazines - the 'Spiegel' kind of magazine, which has an energetic, high-low approach to news. "

" 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. "