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Protecting yourself in what way? Protecting yourself from strangers. I mean, I was a graduate student at Columbia. I was teaching at City College. I was an academic. It never occurred to me that I had to take my name out of the phone book and hide a little bit. And then came Fear of Flying and every crazy lunatic gets your number and has some proposition to make. They want to move in with you, they want you to save their lives, they want you as a lover. I mean, mostly they want salvation and they believe that...
There was a TV incident, too, wasn't there? It was on a talk show. I can't remember who the host was, but he said, all you women's libbers want to pee standing up. I mean, that was the level of the discourse. People just didn't get it. They didn't understand that women's rights are human rights, that women were given really no quarter...
...often, writers don't nail down exactly what they mean by genius. Simonton tries, with this thorough, slightly ponderous, definition: Geniuses are those who "have the intelligence, enthusiasm, and endurance to acquire the needed expertise in a broadly valued domain of achievement" and who then make contributions to that field that are considered by peers to be both "original and highly exemplary." (Read TIME's 2007 cover story, "Are We Failing Our Geniuses...
...mandate. Many Democrats, for instance, felt the White House tried too hard to win the favor of Republicans, who in the end didn't lend their support. "I am not happy with it," said Senator Tom Harkin, Democrat of Iowa. "You are not looking at a happy camper. I mean, they took a lot of stuff out of education. They took it out of health, school construction, and they put it more into tax issues...
...sectarian appeals. "We have a new breed of politicians who can take Basra into a new phase," says Emad al-Battat, the representative to Basra of Iraq's most senior Shi'a cleric, Sayyed Ali al-Sistani. "The fact that Iraqis chose secular politicians over religious ones does not mean Iraq has become any less religious. But the top priority of the Iraqi people is national unity...