The problem with venality in business is that getting outraged about it makes it easy to miss the systemic problems that venality often disguises.
To rush to throw away your magazine business and move it on the iPad is just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear.
Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
The people of Gaza are trapped. Israel has sealed the border, and they have no way to leave the Gaza Strip to do business.
CNN canceled all the shows I was on. They're going in a different direction, but that's their privilege. They own the business.
I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.
There are things players go through on an everyday basis in the business of football. You don't see it all with the glitz and glamour of game day.
I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.
Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.
I'm just really thankful to have the chance to portray a character you don't see every day.
I have five siblings, so my mom was always pregnant, and she would wear these dungarees that looked so cool.
I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.
No government in the world today has explicitly assigned the responsibility for planetary protection to any of its agencies.
The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.
The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health.
Curious patients are more receptive to new ideas, and those who engage their health practitioners in a dialogue are much more likely to adhere to these recommendations.
If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.
It's not just the right-wing crazies who oppose health reform. In addition, there are many sane Americans who worry about committing a trillion dollars to it.
In economic terms, health care is a highly successful industry - profitable, growing, and virtually recession-proof - but it's a massive burden on the rest of the economy.
After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.
My passion is writing, but it is also a fight because I still see home as a woman's duty.
