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“I was more interested in journalism and fact-finding than other things, so I didn't plan to work 30 years as a lawyer.”

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It always rankled me - in law school and the legal profession - when lawyers would speak to each other in their own exclusive…

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Progressive bloggers should not only write on behalf of the members of America's underclass but also empower them to join the discussion.

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Law and politics are often overly complicated because there are people that don't want the rest of us to know what's going on.

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News may not be very profitable anymore, but it sure is popular.

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The president's powers are always open to being questioned by the co-equal branches of government.

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Like any good lawyer, I'm going to maintain a confidentiality of advice offered in confidence.

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The Tea Party movement's economic agenda is a matter of emphasis, not exclusion. This is not a single-issue group.

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Why do Tea Party backers oppose abortion at higher rates than their traditional GOP cohort? Religion.

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As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.

Harold E. Varmus

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A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

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The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.

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