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...equally candid about her personal life. She treats the subjects of divorce, miscarriage, and her daughter’s mental illness with surprising openness. Her philosophizing can be formulaic—“My vision is a world in which every person is valued. No lives are discarded as statistics. No one is marginalized,” she writes—but she is unapologetic, and sometimes appealing...
...like Sudan, because change starts at home. Just ask the man in the mirror. We did, and those warlocks told us to buy two great books: “The Seven Habits of Highly-Effective Teens” by Sean Covey and “Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should be Learning More” by Derek C. Bok. Both have a lot of great tips about picking up girls without coming off as sleazy. Once you’ve perfected yourself, there’s a lot of work...
Yikes. But then Obama is nothing if not candid about his uncertainties and imperfections. In Dreams from My Father, which was written before he became a politician, he admits to cocaine and marijuana use and also to attending socialist meetings. In The Audacity of Hope, I counted 28 impolitic or self-deprecating admissions. Immediately, on page 3, he admits to political "restlessness," which is another way of saying he's ambitious. He flays himself for enjoying private jets, which eliminate the cramped frustrations of commercial flying but--on the other hand!--isolate him from the problems of average folks...
...found him to be one of the most sincere and candid people I’ve known,” said Yiming Wang ’08, Hui’s sophomore year roommate, in an e-mail...
...States of America fixed its attention westward, away from the Old World and toward its own expansion. But the divorce was never intended to be total. Much of the Declaration itself was a plea for European sympathy and understanding. "Let Facts be submitted to a candid world," it argued. "A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation." If the Americans were insisting on moving out of the house, they still wanted to be invited back for the holidays. But would they be, today? Wherever you look...