The needs of the nation are not necessarily convergent with the needs of the deadline satirist.
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I've lived in Washington since 1981 and have been a faithful reader of 'The Washington Post' ever since.
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Short of taking monastic vows or trekking into the Kalahari, a freighter passage might just offer what our relentlessly connected age has made difficult, if not impossible: splendid isolation.
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You live vicariously through your characters.
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My wife and I spent the winter in Worcestershire. This allowed me to tell everyone back home in the States, 'We are wintering in Worcestershire.' This may be a sentence that has never actually been uttered in human history, even by people who spend all their winters in Worcestershire.
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I'm not a particularly cerebral writer. I unabashedly go for the belly.
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