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" When I took over 'The New Yorker,' there was a very, very good, smart staff in place. "
Tina Brown
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" The first black president was a hotter plot line than the first woman president. "
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Line
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Woman
" 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
Nothing
Building
Web
" In the world of screens, we're all tired of screens. That's why I think that live events have become so popular. "
Tina Brown
Events
Tired
Why
" 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. "
Tina Brown
Together
Words
Clever
" When Obama dispenses with that dread sobriquet 'professorial,' he does it by being, well, more professorial. "
Tina Brown
He
More
Well
" Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial. "
Tina Brown
You
Wall
Ethos
" The digital explosion has been so explosive. "
Tina Brown
Digital
Been
Explosive
" Plenty of couples snipe at each other in sometimes embarrassing ways in front of company. "
Tina Brown
Ways
Company
Couples
" There are a multitude of mothers in the world who have a daughter who is stolen, or who are stolen daughters themselves. "
Tina Brown
Daughters
Mothers
Who
" Unlike the Kennedy dynasty, who always knew how to pay off people who might make trouble, the Windsors can't bring themselves to part with any royal trinkets. "
Tina Brown
People
Royal
Trouble
" I've always been very enamored of European newsmagazines - the 'Spiegel' kind of magazine, which has an energetic, high-low approach to news. "
Tina Brown
News
Magazine
Energetic
" Unlike his predecessors, Obama is not big on 'Masterpiece Theatre' nostalgia. "
Tina Brown
Big
Masterpiece
Nostalgia
" 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. "
Tina Brown
Boring
Celebrity
Reality
" It's actually harder than it looks to be a good pundit on the air. You've got to have stuff to say. "
Tina Brown
Good
You
Say
" Periodically, 'The New York Times' runs a business news story lamenting how few women still make it to the top in the Wall Street boys' club. Could it be that women are choosing to be conscientious objectors in these wars of one against all? "
Tina Brown
New York
Women
Street
" 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. "
Tina Brown
Defeat
History
House
" 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. "
Tina Brown
Management
Ideas
Nice
" No one has put in harder training to become a royal bride than the glossy-haired Kate Middleton. "
Tina Brown
Royal
Become
Training
" If a star football player can have a mythical girlfriend, why can't I have a mythical Congress? "
Tina Brown
Girlfriend
Congress
Football
" The question for Obama is how he can rein in the furies of populism while making us all feel the malefactors of great wealth are being sufficiently punished. "
Tina Brown
Us
Question
He
" Interior Secretary Ken Salazar turned out to be all hat and no cattle with his sorry oversight of the Minerals Management Service. "
Tina Brown
Hat
Management
Service
" A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James's 'The Portrait of a Lady.' "
Tina Brown
Heart
Henry
Lady
" By the end of 'Game Change,' one feels that the candidates' few happy moments are those when they 'lose it.' "
Tina Brown
Change
Moments
End
" I haven't spent years, like Alyse Nelson of Vital Voices, toiling for female economic empowerment on five continents. "
Tina Brown
Empowerment
Economic
Years
" 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. "
Tina Brown
Political
Long
Best
" 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. "
Tina Brown
Political
Through
Congress
" I am thrilled to share the news that Andrew Sullivan is bringing his trailblazing journalism to 'The Daily Beast.' "
Tina Brown
Beast
Journalism
I Am
" 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. "
Tina Brown
You
She
Stop
" 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. "
Tina Brown
Great
Nation
More
" It's so thrilling to be intimidated. "
Tina Brown
Intimidated
Thrilling