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

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Nancy Gibbs
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: January 25
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New York City
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Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other people's too our fear lets us practice valor we are tense, and tender as well. And among the things we can no longer afford are things we never really wanted anyway.
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[Former chief executives] come away thinking that America needs a strong, functioning presidency to succeed, and they become very protective of that office. Democrats and Republicans alike are willing to put aside their own party's self-interest to preserve the presidency. That's been true over the decades.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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Some Christians worried about a faith that was so embracing as to be meaningless, that exalted not the Almighty so much as the American way of life. When civil religion bleached the challenge from faith and left behind a watery patriotism, there was room for concern.
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Praise of blame in the moment means little: it is how their decisions play out over time that matters, and so the redemption they're looking for is of a more lasting kind. They are one another's peers who else can really judge them?
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