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...That’s just life.” When she says “topicality” she traces a “T” with her fingers, and when she reaches a driving point in her argument she pinches the tops of her fingers together. To explain why she loves debate, and what her favorite moments are, she says, “Okay. PJ is debating in octofinals, they’re the only Harvard debaters left in the tournament. Octofinals was at something like 7 a.m. on Monday morning, so you’ve been getting...
...this crisis? I'm praying. I'm praying that we'll still have newspapers. That's where you get in-depth information. You can't get it from headline news or these very brief things on TV or on blogs. They don't explain anything...
...responses were just as robust before 1997 as after. That leaves scientists still looking for an answer. The Wired story suggested that the act of merely doing something good for yourself may stimulate the body's "endogenous health-care system," perhaps by inhibiting stress hormones. But that wouldn't explain why the same act might lead to phantom nocebo aches and pains...
...speechwriter, he made Spiro Agnew sound fizzy--"nattering nabobs of negativism" was his alliterative classic--and helped Richard Nixon explain his policies. (He later explained Nixon himself in a historically rich memoir, Before the Fall.) William Safire, who died Sept. 27 at 79, was not just a fighter--he was a champ. He had brio, savvy and insight into human nature. That's why he could write novels: because he was interested in what makes humans do what they do, in motives and twists of fate and unintended consequences...
...black man, sat in on a white-separatist retreat. How did that go over? They were curious and shocked they had found a black man on their premises. A lot of the members of the church took pains to explain to me the difference between white supremacy and white separatism. They said, "We don't think we're better than you; we just want to be separate from you." (Read "What Berlusconi's Obama 'Jokes' Say About Italy...