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...chick-lit writer. You write the book that you want to write and then other people say, oh, that's chick-lit. You say, OK. But it's not like you look around and go to a careers fair and there will be someone at the chick-lit author stand...
...John McCain's speech to the cadets of the Virginia Military Institute is the best single analysis by any political figure of where we stand in the war in Iraq. It is a serious and sober attempt to persuade the American people that the war is winnable, that we should give Gen. Petraeus a chance to win it, and that accepting defeat would be both ignoble and disastrous to American interests. With this morally and intellectually impressive speech, John McCain took leadership of the fight for victory in Iraq...
Boris Yeltsin didn't often speak with journalists, and when he did it was obvious he couldn't stand...
...well as the Western press. According to one report Yeltsin had voiced widely held popular grievances about ordinary Russians' standard of living. "Comrades," he began, "I find it hard to explain to a worker why, in the 70th year of the dictatorship of the proletariat, he still has to stand in line for sausage that has more starch than meat...
...time to hold Harvard accountable and stand for security...