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Leveling the playing field.
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Open up Roswell’s records, Richardson says.
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Is the United States becoming a dynastic monarchy?
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The qualifications of a bicultural background.
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The money would go to Bill Gates’s foundation, Trillin says.
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Reporters tend to be more interested in process, Trillin says.
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Why is somebody’s healthcare tied to his job on an assembly line?
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Why do journalists keep telling us who’s going to win or lose? Is that really the point?
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Health care reform and financial security are America’s biggest challenges, Novelli says.
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We still haven’t figured out what to do with ourselves in the wake of the Cold War.
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Religion has been polarizing us for time immemorial.
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Reporters who think that they’re actually affecting things are following the path to madness or pomposity.
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The New Yorker’s Joseph Mitchell has always been an inspiration of craft; Peter De Vries has been an inspiration for humor.
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At some point most writers realize they sound the way they’re supposed to sound, Trillin says.
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Trying to figure out what goes first and what goes second.
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Although a writer never gets it quite perfect, the joy of laughter and discovery is enough to make a living.
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Nobody ever thought there’d be a rich reporter, Trillin says.
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The worst thing that could happen to a Midwesterner, Trillin says, is to have someone tell your mother at the supermarket that you’d gotten too big for your britches.
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Canadians believe that recycling will make them pure, Trillin says. Maybe Americans can learn a thing or two from that.
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Trillin is optimistic about his own life, but says the world will have to worry about itself.
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The American government still spends too much money on defense, Trillin says.
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Fifty years ago, Trillin would have never thought that religion would become so prominent in American public life.
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Trillin believes in not having a personal philosophy.
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Trillin doesn’t get up in the morning thinking, “Today, I’m going to write the great American story about parking.”
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Trillin would settle for making someone smile after a hard day’s work.
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According to his late wife, Trillin is more a writer than a reporter.
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Trillin wasn’t the sensitive lad hanging off to the side composing things while the other boys frolicked.
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McCain says we have to track down the people who want to destroy America.
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Romney has made a number of lasting friendships along the way.
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