Lucy (@popgore) • Hey
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Publications
- **So, of course, we are going to overanalyze this first interaction of the two leaders.**
- Please tell me you don't work in a morgue.
- **Sairee Chahal: A few years ago, I had set up a boutique consulting firm.**
- **They went straight back at ‘em and said wait a minute.**
- **In a world in which private companies increasingly offer government services, and governments increasingly must compete against the private sector, how do you draw a distinction between the two?**
- **Danielle Robinson, a Madison Avenue brand strategist;**
- **1) Is Iran willing to compromise?**
- **More importantly, certainly in terms of popular perception, Washington should press King Abdullah to pursue a real anti-corruption campaign, one that would remove the "corruption files" from the secrecy of the parliament to a more transparent venue.**
- **DeBess studied Portland rats, and found that just 14 percent carried lepto.**
- **I saw her a minute ago.**
- **It is a deal Ahmadinejad was offered and liked two years ago, but which, Western leaders assume, the Ayatollah rejected.**
- **On a program called “Good Life in Germany,” Sahwil told the chancellor about how she and her family had at one point been threatened with deportation back to Lebanon.**
- **Moreover, the statement frames ICANN’s independence as an eventual, unavoidable end to history.**
- **The moratorium is set to expire this weekend, and hard-won talks could be stymied if the Israelis fail to extend it and the Palestinians decide to walk away from the table.**
- **I am not the first person to note that our nation's social systems and services have not kept pace with advances in treatments and survival, leaving urgent catch-up work to be done.**
- **By a million miles, the least convincing character in the American House of Cards is the supposed President, Garrett Walker (played by Michael Gill—a capable actor who I assume is taking direction).**
- **Assad married Bashar al-Assad, an eye doctor by training, in 2000, the same year he succeeded his father as Syria's president.**
- **on USDA or any other federal government policy, either intentionally or inadvertently.” That open-ended language—is there any important agricultural research question that doesn't touch on policy?—seems to invite politically motivated interference with science.**
- **Beneath it, she wrote “RIP” and something about heaven gaining an angel.**
- **I have written on the subject before, but its renewed focus demands a new column.**
- True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances.
- **For a long time, we were members in coalitions of other leaders.**
- **It promises a kind of fountain of youth until the ever-receding time of death.**
- **"I'm not interested in ginning up 2012 stories," said Eric Fehrnstrom, Romney's traveling press secretary for the 2008 campaign and a former newspaper reporter.**
- **And that helps explain why there may be less than meets the eye both to the decision and to the apparent gulf between the majority and the thoughtful Alito-Roberts dissent.**
- **Sure, it’s for all the wrong reasons.**
- **only 13 percent of women do.**
- **I think I had better have my sweater mended.**
- **To me, the larger lesson here is one that the grassroots on the right must learn.**
- **You should be glad you didn't go with us last night. We didn't have much fun.**
- **Maybe even this month.**
- **That song was written by Tom.**
- **Marco Rubio and Sen.**
- **In August, an investigation by ProPublica found that two such groups had put more money into the presidential campaign than all the super pacs combined—though the super pacs themselves had spent more than the political parties.**
- **Do older Americans think this country is so exceptional that they can all but tell the young their lives are hopeless, and yet continue to enjoy untroubled lives themselves?**
- **This year, the president acknowledged that the market needs more help, but he has not tried aggressively to bolster falling prices.**
- **I had to compromise on this point.**
- They say you only come to peace with yourself when you know yourself better than those around you. Derick knew nothing about this. He thought he had found peace but this was an illusion as he was about to find out with an unexpected occurrence that he actually knew nothing about himself.
- **An informed patient who is mentally competent may legally refuse life-sustaining treatment.**
- We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
- **Studies suggest that participants are 52 percent less likely to skip school, and 46 percent less likely to use illegal drugs.**
- **Fighting in NHL games is down 25 percent from where it was last season, even though the league hasn't made stopping brawls a point of emphasis.**
- **I started reading one night, and when my girlfriend (now wife) went to bed I just kept reading.**
- **Orwell went a step further than Fowler, actually advising writers to start wordlessly, to think of a visual thing, and then to try to find words that fit it.**
- **Vesting one man with the ability to initiate armed conflict is "the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions," he wrote.**
- The coin hovered in the air, spinning over and over again. It reached its peak and began to descend. Both boys were pleading with it to land a certain way but the coin had already made up its mind on what it was going to do.
- **On Wednesday, North Korea announced that it had successfully tested its first hydrogen bomb.**
- **In many other areas of the country, an area of one square mile of public housing would not be allowed to exist anymore.**
- A 1993 report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that drivers under the influence of marijuana are generally slower, clumsier, and have difficulty staying in their lane.
- **Arkansas Senate In addition to being home to one of the most competitive Senate races on the map this year, Arkansas is also the home of the Clintons: The former president and first lady have deep ties in Arkansas, which, recent stories have noted, they still maintain.**