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" 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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" The digital explosion has been so explosive. "

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

" For a guy who believes in hope, Obama doesn't seem to be able to spread much of it around. How can he? We know too much now about the hollowness of institutions and the frailty of their leaders. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Servility always curdles into rage in the end. "

" It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation. "

" I wish my daughter wasn't spending time thinking of Kim Kardashian or Rihanna. "

" CBS's Ed Murrow may have been over-celebrated as the principled observer for the masses, fair yet unafraid to take on the bullies. "

" When Obama heralds another 'teachable moment,' it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake. "

" We live in a culture of destructive transparency. "

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

" Plenty of couples snipe at each other in sometimes embarrassing ways in front of company. "

" It's so thrilling to be intimidated. "

" Disinterested public service has become, just so... what's the phrase, 'old school.' "

" The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th. "

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

" Magazine articles are the new books. "

" 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. "

" I haven't spent years, like Alyse Nelson of Vital Voices, toiling for female economic empowerment on five continents. "

" I know as much as anyone how much her most fervent supporters want Hillary Clinton to run for president. "

" Hillary Clinton has spent her entire career looking bug-eyed with incredulity when an interviewer asks her whatever question she most expects at that moment. "

" More Brazilian women earn Ph.D.s every year than do men. "

" Does Obama create confusion on purpose? "

" It's almost as if Putin is brilliant, really - he's outfoxing Obama all the time. "

" 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. "