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" Unlike his predecessors, Obama is not big on 'Masterpiece Theatre' nostalgia. "
Tina Brown
Big
Masterpiece
Nostalgia
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" Obama achieved something in his first year with health care that successive presidents have been unable to achieve. "
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" To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred. "
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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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" By the end of 'Game Change,' one feels that the candidates' few happy moments are those when they 'lose it.' "
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" It's almost as if Putin is brilliant, really - he's outfoxing Obama all the time. "
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" The no-secrets era of social media makes one consider the built-in risk factor of nominating high-testosterone men to positions of power at all. Everyone is under too much scrutiny now to take a chance on candidates who suddenly blow up into a comic meme, a punchline, a ribald hashtag. "
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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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Defeat
History
House
" The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage. "
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Permission
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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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Army
Job
" When Obama heralds another 'teachable moment,' it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake. "
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Means
Mistake
" 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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System
Weakness
" Until 1869, when they were banned, debtors' prisons were the great incinerators of British reputations. Those who were unable to pay their bills were jailed until their creditors were paid - an unlikely event, given that the prisoner was unable to work. "
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Great
Pay
Prisons
" You can get an interview with anyone overseas on the basis of being part of 'Newsweek.' It still has a great deal of impact. "
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Get
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" No one I know has a job anymore. They've got gigs. "
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Job
Gigs
Anymore
" 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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Big
Superhero
America
" Even as the whole world tries to hang on to its job, there is also this weird parallel sense - almost a covert longing - that the old corrupt structures on which that job depends needs to be, ought to be, swept away. "
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Corrupt
World
Weird
" The number one way of becoming powerful in Washington is by becoming the 'Washington Post.' "
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Post
Way
Washington
" 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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Reach
Internet
Emotions
" 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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" Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that's by far the best way to break in. "
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" The hazard of confessional books is how fast the world moves on while they're written. "
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World
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" Perhaps it's time to stop analyzing Sarah Palin as a politician. Maybe, in her own muddled way, she is at last owning up to the fact that she has been miscast. You don't need politics anymore once you've discovered that the alchemy of celebrity has turned you into a 24-carat phenomenon. "
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You
She
Stop
" After so much reality TV and confessional celebrity interviews, the public is tired of accessible stars. Who needs them to be 'Just Like Us?' 'Just Like Us' means just as boring as we are. "
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Celebrity
Reality
" 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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Line
Now
American
" Top doctors, I have come to believe, are as big a menace to your health as top money managers are to your bank account. They are almost never available to talk to. "
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Top
Bank
Talk
" Celebrity these days is completely for sale; it's not remotely mysterious. But there's something that remains glamorous and mysterious about royalty. "
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Mysterious
Days
Celebrity
" The post-presidency, as Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton have proved, is a win-win. Money, Nobels, the ability to leverage your global celebrity for any cause or hobbyhorse you wish, plus freedom to grab the mike whenever the urge takes you without any terminal repercussions. "
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