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You can’t buy time or save…

You can’t buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.

There’s no sense talking about priorities. Priorities…

There’s no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We’re all transparent against the face of the clock.

The Berlin Wall wasn’t the only…

The Berlin Wall wasn’t the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

But as the arms-control scholar…

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

We’re just delighted that management has…

We’re just delighted that management has come around to my way of thinking.

My challenge was even greater as…

My challenge was even greater as a journalist, because this was happening in my own backyard.

I’m a mother, I’m a journalist…

I’m a mother, I’m a journalist, I’m an American; I’m all of those things, and it really complicates your job when you have all these things come into play.

God created man, but I could…

God created man, but I could do better.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

Getting out of the hospital is…

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You’re not out of it until the computer says you’re out of it.