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The Fox News makeup treatment is unlike any other in journalism. It involves false lashes, layers and layers of foundation, and heavy applications of come-hither lip gloss. Amy Chozick

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Women get exhausted and beat down, and you just want to cry. Amy Chozick

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I do think, with any beat, it helps to establish a basic level of comfort and cordiality, especially if you plan to ask uncomfortable questions. Sitting down in person for a meal or a coffee can help that. Amy Chozick

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In 2007, I went straight from Tokyo to Iowa to join Hillary Clinton's traveling press. I felt like a foreigner there, too. I remember thinking, 'Americans are huge.' Amy Chozick

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I was crashing with a boyfriend on his couch in Fort Green. At first, I was temping - insurance agencies, nonprofits - and then, in between temping, I was going on job interviews, and I could name 12 publications, some of which no longer exist, that didn't even call me back or interviewed me and had no interest. Amy Chozick

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Everything I saw in Japan was a story to me. Amy Chozick

Me Everything Saw Story Japan

I just wanted to tell good stories that helped explain the world to people. Amy Chozick

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Part of a campaign reporter's job is allowing yourself to be used. Amy Chozick

Yourself Job Allowing Part Campaign Reporter Used

So many women have had to make these sacrifices - putting off having kids, letting their husbands down - for some career opportunity. Mine just happened to be covering the woman trying to become the first woman president. Amy Chozick

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I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track. Amy Goodman

You Right Track Journalist Politician Says Track Learned Years Ridiculous Right

We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs. Amy Goodman

Jobs Allowed Journalists Protect

When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8 rounds of chemo, one of my first questions admittedly was: 'Will I lose my hair?' It sounds shallow, I know, but it was a very scary image to me. Amy Robach

I have two cousins with juvenile diabetes. They both contracted the disease before the age of 5, and it was so heartbreaking watching them go through daily blood tests and injections. It is such a difficult disease to live with and requires constant attention; a tough thing to explain to a child. Amy Robach

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When I give my time to a worthy cause, it's time well spent. Lending a voice to help raise money - or perhaps just awareness - is the least I can do to give back. When I spend time with people who are fighting for children, it puts everything into perspective. Amy Robach

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In 2012, I received a phone call from the family of Arsala Rahmani, the Afghan senator with whom I'd become friendly. That morning, a gunman had pulled up alongside Rahmani's vehicle, idling in a crowded intersection, and shot him point blank. Anand Gopal

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The existence of the Taliban, in my view, is a tragedy for Afghanistan. We as Americans need to understand our role in helping bring that tragedy about. So I think it's important to look at the stories about why these people are fighting. Anand Gopal

After the Soviet withdrawal, many Afghan Communists had rebranded themselves as Islamists and joined the mujahedeen. Anand Gopal

Joined Had Withdrawal Islamists Soviet Afghan After Themselves Communists Many

The central thesis of the American failure in Afghanistan - the one you'll hear from politicians and pundits and even scholars - was succinctly propounded by Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage: 'The war in Iraq drained resources from Afghanistan before things were under control'. Anand Gopal

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Unlike other Taliban groups, the Haqqanis' approach to mayhem was worldly and sophisticated: they recruited Arabs, Pakistanis, even Europeans, and they were influenced by the latest in radical Islamist thought. Anand Gopal

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If night raids and detentions are an unavoidable part of modern counterinsurgency warfare, then so is the resentment they breed. Anand Gopal

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When US-led forces toppled the Taliban government in November 2001, Afghans celebrated the downfall of a reviled and discredited regime. Anand Gopal

Government November Taliban Forces Reviled Celebrated Afghans Regime Downfall

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