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The price of loyalty is incompetence.
Jonathan Alter / Journalist
Loyalty
Government
Incompetence
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Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.
Jonathan Alter / Journalist
Convince
Emotion
Logic
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If Franz Kafka were alive today he'd be writing about customer service.
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Alive
Live For Today
Writing
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The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics
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Art
Smile
Analyzing
Politician
Silly
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I think it's a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill -- it finds its way.
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Running
Thinking
Water
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If it's easy for the government to learn about us, it should be easier for us to learn about the government.
Jonathan Alter / Journalist
Government
Easier
Easy
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The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.
Jonathan Alter / Journalist
Education
Fixing
Keys
Teaching
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With his ABC News experience, perhaps Pierre Salinger's next job could be cohosting-with Oliver Stone-a 24-hour Conspiracy Network.
Jonathan Alter / Journalist
Jobs
News
Stones
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The basic problem is with the business model of journalism. That business model is premised on the idea that talk is cheap and reporting is expensive.
Jonathan Alter / Journalist
Ideas
Journalism
Problem
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The only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills merely bad, not disastrous.
Jonathan Alter / Journalist
Done
House
Ideas
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It sometimes takes a while for executives to figure out that the reporters they think of as little bugs to be squashed or spun can be more powerful than they are.
Jonathan Alter / Journalist
Littles
Powerful
Thinking
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Unless the digital divide is narrowed soon, the United States may be headed to the class warfare of a century ago, the last time the economy changed so fundamentally. It won't be pleasant.
Jonathan Alter / Journalist
Class
United States
Warfare
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Obama was willing to compromise and Republicans were not. That's not a biased statement. One of my problems with the limitations of journalism is that straightforward descriptions of reality are seen as being biased.
Jonathan Alter / Journalist
Compromise
Journalism
Reality
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Every patient reacts a little differently, both biologically and psychologically. The only constant in cancer is inconstancy; the only certainty is a future of uncertainty, a truism for all of modern life but one made vivid by life-threatening illness.
Jonathan Alter / Journalist
Cancer
Littles
Modern Life
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In the press grandstand where I watched Discovery rise against the cloudless sky, the media hit the abort button on cynicism. The Earth shook to the sounds of man, three miles away. The candle lit. . . only someone stripped of awe can leave a launch untouched.
Jonathan Alter / Journalist
Men
Media
Sky
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By laying the groundwork for a system centered on home ownership rather than the public housing popular in Europe, the New Deal made possible the great postwar housing boom that populated the Sun Belt and boosted millions of Americans into the middle class, where, ironically, they often became Republicans.
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Home
Class
Europe
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They say that 'history is an argument without end.' In Thompson's skillful hands, this momentous argument between two old friends on the most critical issue of the last century is thus history at its best. Thompson's judicious and delicious depiction of Nitze and Kennan will fascinate anyone who cares about the Cold War or the ways that human beings shape the future.
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War
Hands
Two
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Almost no one under 60 remembers what fundraising was like before Watergate. Until the 1970s, campaign money was collected by "bagmen," familiar characters from the world of organized crime. As fans of Boardwalk Empire know, a bagman is a political fixer who walked around with stacks of $100 and $1,000 bills. At lower levels, he used brown paper bags. In presidential campaigns, the cash was more likely to be in briefcases. Classier that way.
Jonathan Alter / Journalist
Character
Fundraising
Presidential
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Millions of Americans would still despair in the eight long years of the Depression that lay ahead and many of their individual dreams would be dashed on the rocks of economic hardship. But collectively, the country was in a new place, with a new confidence that the federal government would actively try to solve problems rather than fiddle or cater to the rich. Hope was no longer for Pollyannas; the cynics about the American system were in retreat.
Jonathan Alter / Journalist
Dream
Country
Eight
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