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Nancy Gibbs
American
Journalist
Born:
Jan 25
,
1960
Day
Every
People
Power
Time
You
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There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
Nancy Gibbs
Leadership
Matter
Gender
Direction
More
Shaping
Editor
Than
Much
Many
Things
I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
Nancy Gibbs
Good
You
Think
Statement
Good Story
Also
Making
Being
Story
Should
Shout
Bold
Away
Necessary
Shy
The Reverend Jeremiah Wright would baptize Obama, perform his marriage to Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, baptize their daughters, and draw him into the raucous, restless family of faith that Obama had never known before.
Nancy Gibbs
Faith
Family
Marriage
Before
Draw
Obama
Would
Restless
Wright
Daughters
Never
Had
Perform
Him
Known
Robinson
Reverend
His
Michelle
There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
Nancy Gibbs
Enemy
About
Something
Idea
Very
List
Keeping
We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power.
Nancy Gibbs
Faith
Seen
Power
Leader
Submit
Every
President
Some
Higher
Higher Power
Almost
Since
Does
Inevitably
His
American
Poll
Want
Happens
Which
Interest
Serve
I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.
Nancy Gibbs
Good
Family
Matter
Defiance
Believe
Bad
Good Ones
Bad Ones
Come
Ideas
Reverence
Teachers
Deserve
The Catholic Church is one of the oldest, largest and richest institutions on earth, with a following 1.2 billion strong, and change does not come naturally.
Nancy Gibbs
Change
Strong
Church
Earth
Following
Come
Institutions
Catholic
Catholic Church
Does
Richest
Naturally
Billion
Oldest
Largest
At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
Nancy Gibbs
Women
Kids
Jobs
TV
Husbands
Seems
Only
Balancing
Times
Effortlessly
Homes
Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat.
Nancy Gibbs
Change
Challenges
Progress
Simple
About
Costs
Seldom
Casualties
Advance
Retreat
Represents
Whether
Even
Across much of the developing world, by the time she is 12, a girl is tending house, cooking, cleaning. She eats what's left after the men and boys have eaten; she is less likely to be vaccinated, to see a doctor, to attend school.
Nancy Gibbs
Time
Cleaning
Cooking
Doctor
World
School
Men
Girl
See
Eaten
Eats
Tending
Attend
Developing
Developing World
House
Likely
She
Boy
Left
After
Much
Across
Less
By The Time
Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.
Nancy Gibbs
Politics
You
Hide
Secrets
Enter
Glass
House
Places
When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped.
Nancy Gibbs
Education
Higher Education
National
State
Virtually
System
Unarmed
Entire
Higher
Students
Stopped
Shot
Four
Kent
The millennials were raised in a cocoon, their anxious parents afraid to let them go out in the park to play. So should we be surprised that they learned to leverage technology to build community, tweeting and texting and friending while their elders were still dialing long-distance?
Nancy Gibbs
Technology
Parents
Build
Community
Out
Park
Long-Distance
Learned
Still
Go
Were
Surprised
Texting
Anxious
Afraid
While
Them
Elders
Should
Tweeting
Cocoon
Play
Millennials
Leverage
Raised
There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.
Nancy Gibbs
Our
Idea
Over
Heads
Than
Dominion
Hearts
May
Hold
Notion
Less
Original
Original Idea
It is actually the neuroscientists and evolutionists who do the best job of explaining the reasons behind the most unreasonable behavior.
Nancy Gibbs
Best
Behavior
Job
Unreasonable
Most
Behind
Explaining
Who
Reasons
Actually
Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.
Nancy Gibbs
Time
Knowledge
People
Phone
Thought
First
Whatever
Nothing
Our
Fingertips
Having
Like
First Time
Shoe
Hands
Accustomed
Where
Size
Held
Now
Portable
A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.
Nancy Gibbs
Man
Phone
Smart
Moon
Power
Typical
More
Computing
Than
Landed
Apollo
All our efforts to guard and guide our children may just get in the way of the one thing they need most from us: to be deeply loved yet left alone so they can try a new skill, new slang, new style, new flip-flops. So they can trip a few times, make mistakes, cross them out, try again, with no one keeping score.
Nancy Gibbs
Alone
Try
Mistakes
Style
Few
Guard
Our
Guide
Way
Out
One Thing
Trip
Cross
No-One
New
Most
Make
Score
Left
Times
Efforts
Get
May
Just
Children
The One Thing
Loved
Again
Them
Us
Skill
Slang
Keeping
Deeply
Thing
Need
In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.
Nancy Gibbs
Alone
Training
Reward
Parents
Starts
Baby
Resources
Kids
Classic
Case
Colleges
Parent
Charts
Never
Devote
How
Leave
Western
Ends
Einstein
Which
Really
Helicopter
Toilet
Teaching
Many
Why
Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us one step ahead of our kids.
Nancy Gibbs
Will
Parents
Think
Our
Kids
Paranoia
Parental
Entrepreneurial
Step
Make
Equipment
Mix
Selling
Anyone
Us
Fortune
Keep
Right
Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.
Nancy Gibbs
Mom
Family
Son
Dinner
Daughter
Carved
Had
Taken
Cleared
Norman
Mode
Norman Rockwell
Did
Dishes
Hold
Cooked
Dad
Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.
Nancy Gibbs
Politics
War
Faith
Risks
Power
Chaotic
Soldiers
Adds
Rules
Collision
Civilians
More
Only
More And More
No Rules
New
Likely
Command
Lines
Front
Often
Front Lines
Central
Victims
Century
Engagement
Twenty-First
When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
Nancy Gibbs
News
Trouble
Parachute
Complexity
Out
Headlines
Glimpse
Editors
Often
Behind
Storm
Us
Who
Helping
Keep
In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.
Nancy Gibbs
Life
Wise
Smart
Own
Design
Kind
Cost-Effective
Charm
Inspiring
Also
Mean
The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
Nancy Gibbs
War
Understanding
Difficulty
Danger
Immense
Syria
Distorted
Has-Been
Civil
Civil War
Devastating
Been
Covering
On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues.
Nancy Gibbs
Gay
History
Rights
Sports
First
Claimed
Athlete
Civil
Civil Rights
Collins
He
Major
Leagues
Openly
Court
His
Huge
Place
Jason
Star
Play
Four
Basketball
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