A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.
Make up is generally there to make you look better, not make you look like you're wearing make up.
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set.
The days, months, and years eventually reveal, like a Polaroid, a clear picture of how significant events and decisions ultimately shape our lives.
Having cancer empowered me to take more risks. I knew beating cancer was going to shape me, but it wasn't going to be all of me.
Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.
When you're a big girl like me, you want someone who makes you feel diminutive. I think fat guys are sexy.
While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.
The desire for reinvention seems to arise most often when companies hear the siren call of synergy and start to expand beyond their core businesses.
Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.
The fact that industries wax and wane is a reality of any economic system that wants to remain dynamic and responsive to people's changing tastes.
On Wall Street, fraudulent schemes tend to thrive during economic booms, and to blow up when times turn tough.
The U.S. is excellent at importing cheap products from the rest of the world. Let's try importing some human capital instead.
Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions should not be used to deny people insurance.
The stock market has an insidious effect on C.E.O.s' moods, because of its impact not just on their companies but on their own bank accounts.
Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not outright lies.
One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.
When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up.
When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it.
Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.
I want to stay in touch with what I have in common with my subjects, with the places where are equally implicated with whatever is wrong with the culture.
