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...pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things. I feel blessed that I can still do those things without too much worry. When there is a moment when I'm recognized, people are invariably gracious and very effusive about how they feel about my books. All in all, it's a very beautiful thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Khaled Hosseini | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...Whatever is good, whatever is true, whatever is just, whatever is gracious, whatever is worthy of praise, that I’ll commit myself to do,” Ibrahim said. “Even if that is one person, one issue, I will do that...

Author: By Elias J. Groll, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Fellow Defends Nigerian Women Using Sharia Law | 11/24/2008 | See Source »

...Bush Administration and congressional Republicans have gone out of their way to be gracious since Democrats won the White House and expanded their majorities in both chambers of Congress earlier this month. President George W. Bush has already invited Barack and Michelle Obama to the White House - the earliest such visit for a President-elect ever - and on Monday Obama met with his former rival John McCain in Chicago. But just because the Republicans are proving to be good losers doesn't mean that they are willing to get rolled in this week's lame-duck session of Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Dems' Drive to Aid Detroit Is Stalling Out | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

During John McCain's gracious concession speech, he had to pause to quiet his supporters as they booed at the mention of Obama's name. If McCain had conducted his campaign with the grace and honor he showed in defeat instead of stirring up the worst instincts among his party's right-wing base, the outcome of the election might have been different. Bernadette Pruitt, WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America and Change | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

During John McCain's gracious concession speech, he had to pause to quiet his supporters as they booed at the mention of Obama's name. If McCain had conducted his campaign with the grace and honor he showed in defeat instead of stirring up the worst instincts among his party's right-wing base, the outcome of the election might have been different. Bernadette Pruitt, WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

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