Reagan didn't socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But … - Maureen Dowd

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Television really does offer still great parts for women, cable in particular.

Maureen Dowd

Reagan didn't socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But he knew that to transcend, you can't condescend.

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The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

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The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.

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Paul Ryan, who teamed up with Akin in the House to sponsor harsh anti-abortion bills, may look young and hip and new generation, with his iPod full of heavy metal jams and his cute kids. But he's just a fresh face on a Taliban creed - the evermore antediluvian, anti-women, anti-immigrant, anti-gay conservative core. Amiable in khakis and polo shirts, Ryan is the perfect modern leader to rally medieval Republicans who believe that Adam and Eve cavorted with dinosaurs.

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When you're young, and even at times when you're older, it's hard to fathom this: What needs to be nurtured is the stuff that's different, that sets you apart from the pack, rather than the stuff that helps you blend in.

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Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

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In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library.

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The current state of music journalism is not bad, but it's not great at all. Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool. But there are too many magazines, and the access has been diminished, so the quality of profiles has gone way down. Internet stuff can be really good, though. I like the dialogue between fans on the Internet. I think that's the best rock writing that's going on right now.

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As a matter of fact, capitalist economy is not and cannot be stationary. Nor is it merely expanding in a steady manner. It is incessantly being revolutionized from within by new enterprise, i. e. , by the intrusion of new commodities or new methods of production or new commercial opportunities into the industrial structure as it exists at any moment.

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