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...them unintended, which is why I have always thought that politicians and diplomats should be forced to memorize a few haunting lines that the Irish poet W.B. Yeats wrote when he was an old man, looking back over a lifetime of art and political activism. "Did that play of mine send out / Certain men the English shot...
...human heart much more than I wanted to explore politics. Some people have said to me, why did you not write more about Charlie Blackwell's political ascension and his becoming governor, and the campaign, and I feel like there are excellent books out there on political campaigns and mine wouldn't add anything to the mix. There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than...
...scenes were put up by websites in July - which was very misrepresentative of the book - my dad stumbled upon them and I basically said, You know, I tried to protect you from that, and if you sought it out on your own, that has to be your concern, not mine...
...prepared to leave, Cindy McCain spoke of her concern about the situation there. "There's a very serious land-mine issue now because there are land mines being laid as we speak," she said. "There's a whole bunch of things going on right now, and as we begin to move refugees from Point A to Point B or try to feed refugees who are stuck in pockets around the country, we're running into the issue of the blowing up of humanitarian vehicles that are trying to get to the refugees. So it's a whole morass of problems...
...McCain's first exposure to the issue of land mines was after the first Gulf War, when she traveled to Kuwait with the medical group she had established in 1989, American Voluntary Medical Team. "We went basically as an emergency team, not knowing what we'd be getting into," she recalled. "We discovered, as did the Kuwaitis, that the Iraqis had planted land mines in the playgrounds. So we hadn't been there 12 hours, and the first case we get is a young child who had gone outside to play on the teeter-totter and stepped on a land...