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...There’s no doubt there’s a temptation,” he says. “You see these rapt younger faces looking up, and you can get quite a kick out of that, and you can get deluded into thinking somehow you’re really doing something significant when all you’re doing is stroking your...
...that kind of “personal”), I’ve concluded that one is only required to have two things to be a senator—age and votes. That’s right, if you’re over 30 and can somehow convince a couple million people to vote for you (it’s even fewer people for the smaller states), then you can punch your ticket for D.C. and six years of blissful pseudo-employment...
...work out and I’m forced to figure out something else to do when I grow up. Or maybe that’s the answer—I can avoid the trouble of finding an awesome dream job if I just refuse to grow up. Somehow, I don’t think I’ll have any problem with that for the foreseeable future...
...resolution back then demanding military action for Iraq's previous non-compliance, but that wouldn't have passed at all. (Even Britain would have been unable to support it.) Resolution 1441 was as good as it was going to get at the UN, not because the State Department had somehow failed in its mission to persuade the rest of the world of the Bush administration's case, but because the case itself was insufficiently persuasive - even after Powell gave it his spirited best shot at the Security Council in January. (Curiously, not one of the intelligence leads...
...very little about other people. We may learn from others (it’s what you learn outside the classroom that counts, right?) but rarely do we make them part of ourselves, share in—rather than simply know about—their particular passions. It seems somehow a loss that part of the cost of growing up, of becoming a more complete human being, should be that we become more discrete, less impressionable, less generous individuals—that in the pursuit of our best selves, we should be liable of discovering our worst...