American - Editor | November 21, 1953 -
Give Obama a script he has made his own, and he is the motivational speaker to end all speakers. Tony Robbins cloned with Honest Abe.
Tina Brown
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Obama's gift for delivering set-piece oratorical tours de force had special resonance to Americans fed up with a president who could hardly string two words together without a collision of syntax and whose idea of clever was the single entendre.
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Captain Richard Phillips of the good ship Maersk Alabama - and Sully Sullenberger splashing down his crippled airliner in the Hudson River - broke through the poisonous smog of economic depression and Wall Street skullduggery with a reminder that pure individual heroism is a daily occurrence if we know where to look for it.
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Practices such as arranged marriages and restrictions on girls attending school have deep roots, and changing them is a gradual process. Sometimes these problems seem very far away from us here in the United States. But let's remember that even into the 20th century, an American woman could not own property or vote in national elections.
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Disinterested public service has become, just so... what's the phrase, 'old school.'
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It's Obama's bad luck that he got elected just as the mayhem of the foreclosures, the banking collapse, and the General Motors disaster was accelerating the surge in unemployment to warp speed.
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A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James's 'The Portrait of a Lady.'
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There is nobody more boring than the undefeated.
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The Taliban knows they have more to fear from an educated girl than an American drone.
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Perhaps Obama is often slow to nail controversies because he needs time to live inside them for a while in his head. It's unnerving for the rest of us, but even the haters, one feels, are made to think more deeply than they'd like before they return to the bickering and the games.
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The digitally native generation has no idea what has been lost to the freedom of intimacy that has no fear of being recorded.
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No one has put in harder training to become a royal bride than the glossy-haired Kate Middleton.
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