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FINN JONES I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where an... MARA BROCK AKIL ANG LEE I'm often characterized as an optimistic writer, and certainly my 'Neanderthal Parallax'... ROBERT J. SAWYER 'War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World W... DINESH D'SOUZA CAROL BELLAMY This is all about a media war that continues to rage between the old and new media. Unfortunately fo... JOE SCARBOROUGH BEN BARNES GORDON BROWN Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU I often find that pundits are quite negative... not just in tennis, but in sport in general. I just ... ANDY MURRAY What this president has done in conducting a secretive, deceitful, highly costly war which has taken... BOB GRAHAM JOSEPH DE MAISTRE VICTORIA AVEYARD LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA I wanted to find something that was different and a lot of times overlooked, and that's high school ... DAVE ROBERTS HENRIK IBSEN JONATHAN SACKS SOPHIA LOREN I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campa... PATRICK STEWART BOB FELLER Kids should practice autographing baseballs. This is a skill that's often overlooked in Little L... TUG MCGRAW I've often said that there's no one thing that I do or have done that is particularly unique... L. E. MODESITT, JR. In my opinion, and also in the opinion of many, many Afghans, events in Afghanistan has proven that ... HAMID KARZAI GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ ROBERT FISK ROBERT DALLEK It is often observed that the first casualty of war is truth, but how do you tell the truth without ... STANLEY HAUERWAS JILL LEPORE Never has America lost a war ... But name, if you can, the last peace the United States won. Victory... VINE DELORIA JR. Very often, anti-corruption commissions are a politically expedient response to domestic and interna... DANIEL KAUFMAN There are those who have burned schools and killed doctors, nurses and many other innocent Afghans. KHALEEQ AHMED ANTONY BEEVOR
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