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...have you been preparing? I have just tried to create a lot of space around my head--which of course is challenging because I live in a family and I have a job. I've kept a notebook with me, just trying to keep track of everything and stop in my tracks whenever possible...
...poets in the Rolodex who have addressed the moment in language that is fresh and not hackneyed or corny. I've gone back to poets like Gwendolyn Brooks and Auden and Seamus Heaney. But I've also had to put them aside, Brooks in particular, because I kept looking at great lines and thinking, She already--I can't do that! At the end of the day, your job is to listen to your own music...
...There is a convention that the principal heir should be kept away from real danger. As the 'spare' rather than the heir, Harry is expected by the royal family to take the ultimate military risks." - Robert Lacey, royal biographer, Washington Post...
...They kept that s--- a secret from me...I wish they had told me. My God, could you imagine Rickey on 'roids? Oh, baby, look out!" - Denying using steroids during his career, The New Yorker, Sept...
...rocket factories. As they advanced, troops encountered booby-trapped houses and a maze of tunnels, which the Israelis cleared using little robots with camera eyes that were sent down the shafts to ferret out hiding militants. The troops' progress is slow and methodical, but this way casualties are kept low. The IDF says it has lost only 10 soldiers since the fighting began, four of those to "friendly fire...