If you want to humble an empire, it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe.
From Nancy Gibbs
Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear.
The crossroads of science and politics is a dodgy place.
We will never know if any other president approached Nixon in paranoia, profanity or potential criminality, since only his conversations were captured, subpoenaed and ultimately released on the front pages of newspapers.
Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets.
The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the web page... that's asking a lot of people.
I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news.
Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.
I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over.
If anything, the power of the cover of 'Time' has increased as the media landscape has atomized.
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