Word: haven
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...TIME:You've written a lot about why Hillary Clinton makes a good leader, in your book and elsewhere. Even your seven-year-old daughter, Kate, has endorsed her. But you haven't, have...
...Myers:No, I haven't, in order to maintain some pretense of objectivity for the book, although people will assume I'm for Hillary Clinton and that's in some ways inescapable. I think what I've been struck by in this campaign is that it's still more difficult for women to be taken seriously. Hillary has had to prove she was tough enough to be Commander in Chief. That's one reason her campaign made her 30 years of experience its foundation. Then again, if you're too tough, then people think you're too hard...
Many of the forces that initially sent the economy into a tailspin in 1929 and 1930 have been at work in the 2000s as well: a stock-market boom turned bust, a real estate boom turned bust, unprecedented levels of consumer debt. The reason they haven't metastasized 1930s-style is that this time around, the Federal Reserve has acted forcefully, whereas in 1930 it was a spectator at the national train wreck...
...national affirmative-action plan that favors Malays in everything from education to government contracts. Indians, who are Malaysia's poorest ethnicity, are so frustrated that they have marched by the thousands in Kuala Lumpur in recent months. "We respected [the National Front] for a long time, but they haven't helped us at all," says rubber tapper M. Krishnan, an ethnic Indian in Kepala Batas. "So now we need to change, to fight...
...reporting in the North - to no avail. Partly, I've always assumed, that's because I'm a U.S. citizen, and we have been technically at war with the North since a 1953 armistice. Partly it may be because some of the things I've written over the years haven't exactly been flattering to the family dynasty that runs the place: the late Kim Il Sung (the "Great Leader") and now his son, "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il. But mostly it's because the North Koreans, in their bull-necked isolation, pretty much don't give a damn what...