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" 'Worshipping in private,' as Obama does, comes off as just another form of annoying elitism. "

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" No one has put in harder training to become a royal bride than the glossy-haired Kate Middleton. "

" Obama achieved something in his first year with health care that successive presidents have been unable to achieve. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" Voters seem to understand what a big waste of time trying to change Washington is. "

" Any great, long career has at least one flameout in it. "

" When I took over 'The New Yorker,' there was a very, very good, smart staff in place. "

" It always seemed to me ironic that the McCain campaign kept referring sneeringly to Obama's meager resume - 'a mere community organizer!' - before he entered electoral politics. It was Obama's experience as a community organizer that proved such a killer app when he applied that skill to the Internet. "

" Feminism in some ways has become quite dormant. "

" 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. "

" Practices such as arranged marriages and restrictions on girls attending school have deep roots, and changing them is a gradual process. Sometimes these problems seem very far away from us here in the United States. But let's remember that even into the 20th century, an American woman could not own property or vote in national elections. "

" The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage. "

" What America is thirsting for now is a battalion of strong, down-to-earth 'doers' - managers, frontline activists, business and social entrepreneurs engaged in tackling America's manifold problems of unemployment, education, and competitive slouch. "

" 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. "

" Where did the inspiring Obama of the campaign go, that Facebook pied piper who friended the whole world with this update: 'Change you can believe in.' What happened to him? "

" There are a multitude of mothers in the world who have a daughter who is stolen, or who are stolen daughters themselves. "

" I think that big, sort of theatrical relaunches tend to set you up for failure and hype. "

" We live in a culture of destructive transparency. "

" In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism. "

" 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. "

" Editorial outfits are now advertising agencies. "

" Magazine articles are the new books. "

" Some weddings take longer to plan than others. "

" 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. "

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

" In all the debate about Afghanistan, we don't hear much about our obligation to the wretched lives of Afghan women. They are being treated as collateral damage as the big boys discuss geopolitical goals. "

" 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. "

" 'The Daily Beast' competes in the highly Darwinian media world filled with hyper-smart, highly adaptive, tool-using people with opposable thumbs. "

" It is ironic that American women now need to be fortified by the inspiration of the women of the Arab Spring, who risked so much to win basic human rights. "