“Decades of research suggest that venting mostly serves to make the venter more expert at getting angry.” — The Importance of Being Angry - WSJ.com
“The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is to the wider Middle East what off-Broadway is to Broadway.” — Op-Ed Columnist - Green Shoots in Palestine - NYTimes.com
“After John F. Kennedy won, the new president had a June 1961 summit meeting in Vienna with Khrushchev, and gloomily told the Times reporter James Reston afterward that “[Nixon] just beat the hell out of me.” Assessing Kennedy as a soft touch, Khrushchev put up the Berlin Wall and then shipped Soviet missiles to Cuba; it took that nuclear confrontation to show the Russian that his personal assessment of Kennedy’s will was quite mistaken.” — Op-Ed Contributor - The Cold War’s Hot Kitchen - NYTimes.com
“Mr. Smith, a former teacher, ran for office on an anticorruption platform, telling The New York Times: “I don’t take cash. I don’t let people give me things.” He is charged with taking $15,000 in bribes.” — 3 New Jersey Mayors and 5 Rabbis Among Those Arrested in Federal Inquiry - NYTimes.com
“A Sarah Palin who stepped down for the sake of her family and her media-swarmed state deserves sympathy even from the millions of Americans who despise her. A Sarah Palin who resigned in the delusional belief that it would give her a better shot at the presidency in 2012 warrants no such kindness.” — Op-Ed Columnist - Palin and Her Enemies - NYTimes.com
“I live in a tormented state now, knowing all of the pain and suffering that I’ve created. I’ve left a legacy of shame, as some of my victims have pointed out, to my family and my grandchildren.” — Madoff in Court to Learn His Fate - NYTimes.com
“. MTV, which was born in part as a result of Mr. Jackson’s groundbreaking videos, reprised its early days as a music channel by showing his biggest hits.” — Michael Jackson, Pop Icon, Is Dead at 50 - NYTimes.com
“it took 15 minutes of anxious conversation to convince the guards that he had been kidnapped along with an American journalist — who hardly looked the part, with his long beard and Islamic attire.” — With a Plan and a Rope, Captives Fled From Taliban - NYTimes.com
“the initial quest to have Moussavi’s votes properly counted and Ahmadinejad unseated has shifted to a broader confrontation with the regime itself.” — Op-Ed Columnist - A Supreme Leader Loses His Aura as Iranians Flock to the Streets - NYTimes.com
“Even if defeated electorally, the Islamists and their regimes have a trump card: guns. Guns trump cellphones. Bang-bang beats tweet-tweet.” — Op-Ed Columnist - The Virtual Mosque - NYTimes.com