Word: candide
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...Johnson had access to Palin and her family that a reporter could only dream about now, although even some of her candid statements sound eerily like late-2008 talking points. Referring to her unsuccessful run for the lieutenant governorship of Alaska in 2002, Palin told the author, "There was a lot of talk about the fact that I didn't have years of experience. Leadership shouldn't be based on years of public experience - it should be based on vision and example...
Amid the flattery and the flummery, what truths might a candid friend impart to Cameron? Here are a few thoughts...
...Cameron's view, to a serious imbalance in relations with Washington. "Blair was too much the new friend telling you everything you want to hear rather than the best friend telling you what you need to hear." What Britain should be to the U.S., says Cameron, is "the candid friend, the best friend...
...topics in her work. She delved into issues such as unwanted pregnancy and divorce in a way that her young readers could relate to. Among her nearly 20 books were Bonnie Jo, Go Home (which dealt with abortion) and The Girl Inside, a story about coping with death. Her candid presentation was unprecedented in girls' fiction in the 1960s and helped pave the way for generations of writers to follow...
...patients' bill of rights and even a boxers' bill of rights. He got great press, and colleagues have often rolled their eyes at his ubiquitous television presence, but the Sunday shows wouldn't have invited him so often if he hadn't become so interesting - and so candid. "He's fascinating: basically a doctrinaire Reagan conservative, but when something offends him, he breaks from the orthodoxy," says Ivan Schlager, the top Democratic counsel to McCain's Commerce Committee during the 1990s. "It's not ideological. It's good guys and bad guys...