Word: rightfulness
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...Obama's job is certainly lonely, as no doubt all Presidents have found [Jan. 25]. And yet the scale of destructive attacks on this man--from right, left and now center--is without precedent. By any standard, this man has achieved a remarkable record of legislation and world leadership in his first year in office. But how can he hope to continue unless we give him at least our grudging support...
Nancy Gibbs got it right. People have short memories: when Obama stressed the fact that the economy would take months, even years, to fix, most people seemed to get it--at the time. Now because he couldn't work miracles in a few months, he is being condemned...
...detach from your age in experience. You get fired at 32 and feel 12 again, or you're invited to teach for the first time and feel ancient standing in front of all those wide eyes. You circle back on certain ages, replaying them until you get it right. If the middle-school cafeteria is the setting for your recurring nightmares, you can spend decades as a preteen in your head, refining the snappy comeback that you never mastered at the time. What is a midlife crisis if not an adolescent rebellion with a bigger price tag? And our culture...
...suppose this is [points out tattoo on right shoulder]. This guy. A dragon. I got it in 1982 in Los Angeles. I had one that I wanted to get covered up. I wanted something different, and it was different. But now kids have tattoos everywhere. Girls do it. I don't mind a little bird or something like that, but you see girls with these big dragons and battleships and things. If you want to be somebody special now, don't have a tattoo, because everyone's getting them, you know...
...driver and I left a press conference at the Iraq Oil Ministry and headed back to the Hamra Hotel compound, where I live and work, we saw a dusty cloud rising to our right. "Perhaps a mortar into the Green Zone," he suggested. We had almost arrived when the second bomb exploded. The gunshots started soon after. My driver slammed the car into reverse and wove around cars, people and concrete barriers, right up to the hotel entrance. We ran inside, joining a handful of people sheltering from the gunfire. The last bomb brought down much of the ceiling...