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...from Gaza when I noticed the fellow growing impatient. "Enough of this," he said. "What about Hillary?" Welcome to my life. In airports, on checkout lines, at the doctor's office: "What about Hillary?" (Everywhere except in Washington, where everyone "knows" she's running.) I shrug, I try to avoid the question, I say it's too early-and it is. But you want to know too, right? So here it is. I like Senator Clinton. She has a wicked, ironic sense of humor (in private) and a great raucous belly laugh. She is smart and solid; she inspires tremendous...
Michael Ware chooses to keep quiet about certain aspects of Baghdad life: the careful, tedious planning to bolster the security of staff members as they gather reporting, the anxious waiting for a colleague who has not shown up on time, the instinctive action taken in a dangerous situation to avoid disaster. As TIME's bureau chief in the bomb-blasted city, Ware has been through his share of harrowing silence. Yet it has not hampered his ability to put into words the explosive stories that have made our coverage of the conflict in Iraq stand out over the past...
...American women ages 40 to 60 - guarantees that some rules may have to be rewritten and boundaries moved to accommodate them. That was part of the inspiration for Shellenbarger's book. "I thought I could help other women see this coming in their lives," Shellenbarger says, "and not only avoid doing damage to others but capitalize...
...addition, the students seemed to be provoking the town-gown conflict that he had been trying to avoid for nearly a decade in the residential areas near...
...adopts a semi-sarcastic tone of voice while talking about these efforts, so as to avoid sentimentality, but his words are passionate. “I started doing my stuff for kids purely because it was fun, because I had my own kids, and because I do enjoy it. But as I began to do more and more of it, it sort of pleased me that I was going at it with a sort of missionary zeal,” he says, reveling in the grandiose nature of the last two words...