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...bibliophobes that just knowing about a book as opposed to having read it is no reason for shame. "Even the most cultivated among us have enormous gaps in their knowledge," Bayard says. "Many great intellectuals - Paul Valéry, [Michel de] Montaigne, Oscar Wilde - often spoke about books they hadn't read, and didn't feel guilty about...
Even in Iowa, though, few voters are brave enough to talk about their doubts and reservations to a candidate's face. Clinton knows that. So as she stumped from Des Moines to Cedar Rapids to Davenport, you could hear her trying to answer the question that hadn't been asked: Can someone as polarizing as Hillary Clinton really be elected? "I know how to win," she insisted at the Teamsters hall. "I can win the nomination and I can win the general election because there isn't anybody besides my husband who's been through more with the folks...
...important to be humble when we talk about education, because TV was going to change education and videotape was going to change it and computer-aided instruction was going to change it. But until the Internet exploded 10 years ago, technology really hadn't made a dent in education at all. Learning is mostly about creating a context for motivation. It's about why should you learn things. Technology plays a role, but it's not a panacea...
...that they were supporting me. And you know, the young women who came wanting autographs or wanting to tell me they were teachers or they were students or they were nurses. It was really touching to me that there was so much personal outpouring toward me, especially since I hadn't been there in so long...
...CLINTON: Well, I spent a lot of time with my family over Christmas, and Bill and I went away for a few days over New Year's, and that gave me the space-the psychic space-to really think it through because I hadn't focused on it with the level of seriousness it needed until after my election [to the Senate]. I mean, I knew I was going to think about it, but then it came to actually have to think about it, and we were still working in the Senate. I was receiving a lot of advice from...