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The fact of the matter is, particularly when covering a campaign, which is a very high-speed story, it's incredibly unusual for the reporter to be in the same place as the dateline when the story is filed. Andrew Rosenthal

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Datelines are kind of an anachronism. It's a little bit of an affectation. Andrew Rosenthal

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My father, A. M. Rosenthal, edited the 'Times' for nearly 20 years and worked at the paper for many more. Andrew Rosenthal

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My father was not prone to worship, but he worshiped Arthur Sulzberger. Andrew Rosenthal

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For nearly three years, President Obama devoted a great deal of effort to finding compromises with Congressional Republicans. That was futile, in my view, since those Republicans had made it clear from the day he was inaugurated in 2009 that their plan was to oppose everything he wanted and then paint him as a failed president. Andrew Rosenthal

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Ultimately, presidential campaigns are - or at least should be - about the candidates, not their spouses or surrogates. Andrew Rosenthal

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The columnists have a very personal relationship with their readers, and the readers deserve to hear directly from the columnists. Andrew Rosenthal

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The moment a large investor doesn't believe a government will pay back its debt when it says it will, a crisis of confidence could develop. Investors have scant patience for the years of good governance - politically fraught fiscal restructuring, austerity and debt rescheduling - it takes to defuse a sovereign-debt crisis. Andrew Ross Sorkin

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Bringing back something akin to Glass-Steagall would clearly help limit risk in the system. And that's a very good and worthy goal. Letting banks sell securities and insurance products and services allowed them to grow too big too fast and fueled a culture that put profit and pay over prudence. Andrew Ross Sorkin

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Debt, we've learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own set of villains - pick your favorite: bankers, regulators, central bankers, politicians, overzealous consumers, credit rating agencies - but all require one similar ingredient to create a true crisis: too much leverage. Andrew Ross Sorkin

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Tiptoeing on a tightrope past insider trading laws may be deft and clever, but it doesn't make it right. Andrew Ross Sorkin

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I got my start in the 'New York Times' because I used to read Stuart Elliot, the advertising columns. I still do. And I read him so religiously, I wanted to work for him before I died. Andrew Ross Sorkin

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There are those on Wall Street and in the plutocracy who feel that Geithner is a hero who deftly steered the country from economic ruin. To many ordinary Americans, however, he is considered a Wall Street puppet and a servant of the so-called banksters. Andrew Ross Sorkin

There's a good argument to be made that companies that are private, where they're run by partnerships, where everybody has true stake in them and they're not playing with other people's money, that by default it's a safer system, because you really have skin in the game. You really own the company. Andrew Ross Sorkin

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Unfortunately, I think it's very difficult to separate policy from politics. In a perfect world, in some instances, you probably would want to. In other instances, you'd probably say that the political element is important because it should, in a perfect world, match what the stakeholders need or want, or what the public is after. Andrew Ross Sorkin

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In the age of activism that is clearly not going away, it would seem that some form of engagement from directors with shareholders - rather than directors simply taking their cues from management - would go a long way toward helping boards work on behalf of all shareholders rather just the most vocal. Andrew Ross Sorkin

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In truth, a leader should either apologize, mean it and do something about it - or not apologize at all. Andrew Ross Sorkin

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There is a long list of psychology research demonstrating that appearances matter more than most us would care to admit. As shallow as it may be, better-looking people have been shown in various studies to have higher self-esteem and more charisma, are considered more trustworthy and are better negotiators. Andrew Ross Sorkin

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Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon trading, for example. Some have changed the world, and others failed miserably. Andrew Ross Sorkin

What if the slowdown in merger activity isn't cyclical, but secular? What if corporations have learned the lessons of so many companies before them that the odds of a successful merger are no better than 50-50 and probably less? Is it possible that the biggest deals have already been done? Andrew Ross Sorkin

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