"The bill had support from the opinion elite in this country," Mr. Beck said. "But we built a grass-roots army, consumed with passion for a cause, and used the power of the Internet to go around the elites and defeat a disastrous amnesty bill."

People rarely weigh the cost of not taking a risk. Those are the ones that get you.

Why are we looking so hard? And what do we expect to find?

"I was terribly in love with him, but we were separated by race and by the fact that he hated me."

I was belligerent and obnoxious, but I didn’t mean it. That’s how we debated in my family.

We produce and replicate every day the culture in which our children grow up, a culture in which Paris Hilton gets news coverage 24/7 and young Iraqi refugees being forced into prostitution in Syria get a couple of minutes on the evening news; a culture in which kids, like their parents, sprint through each overscheduled day; a culture in which parents don’t have the time -- or take the time -- to model reading for their children.

"We don’t hang together, but we’re cool."

I did Ecstasy with her and felt as if I were peering through the windows of a crowded house I no longer lived in.

"They really think that they’re helping, but they’re actually messing it up bad."

... the smiles and warm embraces between Presidents Bush and Putin just a few weekends ago at the so-called lobster summit in Maine did little to soften the Kremlin’s pique ...

"The famous Kalashnikov assault rifle has become not only an example of daring innovative thought but also a symbol of the talent and creative genius of our people," President Vladimir V. Putin said in a decree.

"The point is that everybody is nobody."

The Texas Legislature has taken up a bill to tax strip clubs, dedicating the money to education.

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