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" While many alien species are harmless, others pose expensive threats to seas and fields and forests. "

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" As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it. "

" The Reverend Jeremiah Wright would baptize Obama, perform his marriage to Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, baptize their daughters, and draw him into the raucous, restless family of faith that Obama had never known before. "

" After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault. "

" It is actually the neuroscientists and evolutionists who do the best job of explaining the reasons behind the most unreasonable behavior. "

" The Catholic Church is one of the oldest, largest and richest institutions on earth, with a following 1.2 billion strong, and change does not come naturally. "

" Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers. "

" I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last scene in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But Valentine's Day leaves me cold. "

" It's the experts in adolescent development who wax most emphatic about the value of family meals, for it's in the teenage years that this daily investment pays some of its biggest dividends. "

" 'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept. "

" Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul. "

" Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear. "

" We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power. "

" There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads. "

" High school is a haunted house in April, when seniors act up because the end is near. Even those who hate school sometimes cling to the devil they know. And for the kids who love it, the goodbyes are hard to think about. "

" When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak. "

" Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us. "

" The days of the Pentagon Papers debates seem long past, when a sudden transparency yielded insight into fights over war and peace and freedom and security; the transparency afforded by Twitter and Facebook yields insights that extend no further than a lawmaker's boundless narcissism and a culture's pitiless prurience. "

" Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his own. "

" Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day. "

" Rooting from the sidelines is the most democratic of sporting rites: no skyboxes, no tickets required, just an unabashed will to holler and wave. "

" I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time. "

" On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues. "

" Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things, it pays for all kinds of invisible but essential safety nets and life belts and guardrails that are useless right up until the day they are priceless. "

" Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them. "

" I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news. "

" Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip. "

" As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to. "

" Barack Obama wants teacher service scholarships. "

" A president can't go to every memorial service. "

" High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems to ignite in some people and dim in others. "