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I was a campaign widow.
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Campaign
Widow
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You have to follow that next step.
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Next Step
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I believe in following opportunities.
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Following
Believe I Believe I Believe In
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New York City has an integration problem.
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Integration
New York City
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I don't claim any great experience or expertise.
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Expertise
Claim
Great Experience
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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Journalist
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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Big Cities
Cities
Hallmark
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Very few of us can stop our lives and become activists.
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Activists
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We can all get behind feeding the poorest kids in school, right?
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Feeding
Poorest
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It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.
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Truism
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I have one idea of how to get more Democratic women to polling stations: Stand up for them.
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Polling
Stations
Stand Up
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Grit can't be measured on pop quizzes, but it can often predict long-term success more than mere intelligence.
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Grit
Long Term
Mere
Predict
Measured
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Houston's one of the most diverse urban areas in the entire country, and most people here are really proud of that.
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Diverse
Houston
Urban
Urban Areas
Area
Entire
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I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.
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Bronx
Married
Mother Man Father
Jewish
Hindu
Man Father Mother
North
Rural
Whose
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The celebrity's desire to shape the next generation of young minds by opening a school is by no means unique to Diddy.
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Opening
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Wishy-washy equivocations - and not just on abortion, but on immigration, on civil rights, on income inequality - weaken all of us.
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Abortion
Civil Rights
Immigration
Income
Income Inequality
Inequality
Weaken
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I've always wanted to walk the whole of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, which winds 184.5 miles from Georgetown to Cumberland, Maryland.
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Maryland
Miles
Ohio
Canal
Walk
Winds
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Campaign widowhood totally suited me, and I soon began to suspect that our setup beat the bill-paying and bickering of an actual marriage.
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Bickering
Actual
Campaign
Setup
Suited
Suspect
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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Don't Care
Normal
Normal People
Treat
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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Embarrassment
Ohio
Scandal
Abysmal
Nationwide
Supporters
Trail
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Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction.
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Attractive
Careers
Pursue
Tutor
Bulk
Failed
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The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.
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Lottery
Age Me Young
Card
Claim
Clerk
Sold
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With our growing attachment to the online universe comes a refined ability to keep tabs on several things at once, to watch stories unfold on parallel planes.
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Attachment
Online
Planes
Refined
Universe
Parallel
Several
Unfold
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Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.
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Cognitive
Meals
Nutrition
Providing
Good Thing
Proper
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What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
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Classroom
Public School
Response
American Public
Whatsoever
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In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens.
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Parenting
Health
Book
Current Events
Journalism
Lifestyle
Reviews
Young Adult
Adult
Writer
Avoid
Career
Current
Preferred
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There's a nastiness to conversations about U.S. education reform, which are characterized by the kind of stark taking-of-sides that's usually reserved for debates over guns or abortion rights.
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Abortion
Education Reform
Reserved
Characterized
Guns
Conversations
Debates
Stark
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If we all band together against extremism and spend a few minutes a day using tools that have been proven to work, we can make a big difference in defending those values we share as Americans.
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Extremism
Proven
Tools
Work Together Day
Big Difference
Defending
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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Editing
Gigs
Late Night
Twenties
Attempted
Copy
Far Less
Grueling
Newspaper
Waitressing
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A big reason I'd spent my career as a writer and not a public speaker is that I am a person who refines my worldview in a silent room, waiting for my thoughts to arrange themselves on the screen before me.
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Silent
Waiting
Worldview
Arrange
Thoughts I Am Me
Speaker
Screen
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As more and more minority groups fill our nation's classrooms, what can we do to even the separate-but-forever-unequal playing field? Now that's a question many very smart people have spent decades trying to answer.
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Decades
Smart People
Classrooms
Fill
Minority
More And More
Playing Field
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I had to work up the courage to even imagine myself running for Congress. But I eventually decided that our country had a moral problem in only letting white men - even the right-minded ones - have a seat at the table.
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Seat
Letting
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Calling representatives every single day, arranging local community meetings, and marching in the streets every Sunday. It's not the path to glory, but it's absolutely essential to maintaining a democracy under threat.
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Arranging
Glory
Local Community
Maintaining
Representatives
Streets
Sunday
Every Single Day
Every Sunday
Marching
Single Day
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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Germany
Grandfather
Houston
Immigrants
Profession
Refugee
Arrived
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Thousands
Welcomed
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I never experienced much outright anti-Semitism. While we learned about the Holocaust - endlessly, it felt like - no spray-painted swastika ever appeared on my childhood landscape. Jewish persecution was an ever-looming reality, but always an abstract one.
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Abstract
Anti Semitism
Holocaust
Landscape
Persecution
Appeared
Endlessly
Experienced
Outright
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As President Trump quickly moved to limit immigration, civil rights, and environmental protections, I felt fear for my young children, and guilt, too - as if I'd somehow betrayed the unspoken contract all parents make to give our children a better life than ourselves.
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Environmental
Betrayed
Better Life
Civil Rights
Guilt
Immigration
Moved
President
Rights
Trump
Unspoken
Young
Young Children
Civil
Contract
Parents
Limit
President Trump
Quickly
Somehow
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In middle school, I had a teacher who regularly reminded students of the Monday night Young Life meetings he sponsored; on Tuesdays, he'd spend the first few minutes of class palling around with the chosen ones about all the fun and fellowship they'd experienced together.
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Teacher
Chosen
Fellowship
Meetings
Middle School
Minutes
Monday
Monday Night
Experienced
Regularly
Reminded
Sponsored
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My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.
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Marriage
Aisle
Former
Houston
Husband
License
Married
Produce
Texas
Drive
Drove
Grid
San
Sprawling
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I believe that if Democrats - not any one Democrat, and certainly not just me - want to start winning races again, Lujan's statement that the DCCC would fund candidates who oppose abortion rights puts our country in danger and makes it all the more likely that the Republicans will continue to defeat us in election after election.
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Abortion
Candidates
Danger
Defeat
Election
Fund
Start Believe Me
Believe I Believe Me
Democrats
Republicans
Believe Me Winning
Oppose
Puts
Races
Statement
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