Scott Anderson
Scott Anderson
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As a journalist, I try to avoid talking to American diplomats, because I am stunned again and again by just how little grasp they have of what people are really feeling in a country. Especially CIA guys. Maybe they're just really good at playing stupid, but I don't think so.
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The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me extraordinarily self-sufficient, but it had also bred a certain detachment, a sense that the world was a place to explore rather than truly inhabit. This manifested as a kind of shyness, even timidity.
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The modern Middle East was largely created by the British. It was they who carried the Allied war effort in the region during World War I and who, at its close, principally fashioned its peace. It was a peace presaged by the nickname given the region by covetous British leaders in wartime: 'The Great Loot.'
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I wanted to display something people might see at the Riparian Preserve, or at least in Arizona.
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I was kind of under the impression that very little research was meaningful in medicine ? that their work was frivolous. Every time I was able to deny a project, I felt I had gained a victory that these animals didn't have to be used in research.
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If the Legislature passes USTAR and funds it as being requested, this will set off an explosion that will have a dramatic impact and a dramatic return to our state and to our economy.
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In Central California these days, it seems as if everyone is either a real estate agent, mortgage broker, home builder or construction worker.
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The economy may have taken a stutter step, but it's one step back and two steps forward. We need to look past the weak GDP number.
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Alex is going to put pressure on you with his legs. If he gets into your secondary, he becomes like a running back.
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We have several banking relationships with Okanogan businesses and residents of Okanogan. This makes it more convenient for them and those that are not members. This is an opportunity for us.
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The quick settlement of the Boeing strike cements the prospect that the economic good times will continue in the coming year.
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You can't be running record deficits forever without some impact on yields.
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The prices paid component plays into fears that the Fed may be behind the curve.
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We're going to see a good bounce back in the first quarter. Solid consumer and business spending will be driving that growth.