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October 24, 2009
- Perhaps it is merely force of habit, but I often find myself imagining what powerful public figures are really thinking as they act in ways that impact on our lives. Unlike psychologists and psychiatrists, who make a lifetime study of human motivation and rely on data that has been acquired scientifically by repetition, experimentation, observation and insight, the novelist operates purely on ...
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October 9, 2009
- Stephen --This morning, Michelle and I awoke to some surprising and humbling news. At 6 a.m., we received word that I'd been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009.To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who've been honored by this prize -- men and women who've inspired me and inspired the entire world through their courageous ...
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September 23, 2009
- While President Obama is doing the Sunday morning and late night talk show circuit here in the States, hawking his healthcare plan, there seems to be a war going on in Afghanistan. No, seriously, you may have heard about it if you were paying close attention. I kid you not. I think you can Google it.Now, I'm going to be right up front about this. George W. Bush screwed up this war by ignoring it ...
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September 11, 2009
- Dear Readers,As you know I have been working on a new book for Cider Mill Press on FDR--With Strong and Active Faith: The Wisdom of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In June I took my family along for a drive up to Hyde Park to visit the Roosevelt home and research at the FDR library there. It was a fascinating journey, I have been studying the Roosevelt family for many years. We were all set to ...
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June 16, 2009
- An estimated 1.5 to 2 million citizens took to the streets of Tehran June 15, 2009. Image Credit: mousavi1388's flickr photostream Ladeen's Analysis: Iran And The Lust For Freedom The world, especially the President of the United States, Barack Obama, expected that Ahmadinejad would be replaced as President in Iran's national election over the weekend but this was not the ...
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June 7, 2009
- Storyhearts Sunday UK Blog - The USA needs a Citizen's Charter Do you get fed up when engineers, repairmen etc tell you they will be at your house to fix the TV/water/gas/electric/telephone at and then never turn up? Do get totally p'd off leaving messages and never getting a call back? Do you wish you knew more about the standard or education in your childrens school or had less issues returning ...
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June 1, 2009
- Doesn't the person who saved the life of the President of the United States deserve a name? The woman who attempted to assassinate Gerald Ford, Sara Jane Moore, has her name out there. Although we still know little about her. But we hear nothing about the person who foiled Moore's second shot. He was just a bystander. Just a bystander? To correct a common error, Sara Jane did get off one shot at ...
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June 1, 2009
- Sunday's New York Times had an article on the cover about artists from around the world painting likenesses of our president. The few examples accompanying the article were impressive, some better than others, but who am I to judge since I have trouble drawing anything more than a stick figure. I am so impressed by what an artist is able to do with watercolors and wonder ...
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May 13, 2009
- I received an e-mail message from the White House today. At 1:31 in the morning, I found waiting in my inbox an e-mail message from President Barak Obama. I don't work at the White House. I don't work in government. I'm a citizen of the United States of America and I received an e-mail message from the President of my country. True, I wasn't the only one. I'd signed up to receive ...
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April 14, 2009
- Twenty-seven years ago I promised a convicted felon I would store her art collection until her son was old enough to take it. This collection is not some small assembling of prints or photos. The collection includes seven oil paintings, some as large as a doorway. There are wall-size Georgia O’Keefe-type flowers bursting in reds and orange magnificence. The most ...
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