Why is it our business whether Sarah Palin returned to her job as governor three days after her son was born, or three months? Is there a right answer?

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And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to her own house.
BIBLE

In choosing Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has chosen for the future.
RUDY GIULIANI

When I come to visit my mom - every two or three months - I generally spend five or six hours with h...
MICHAEL DIRDA If they know where she's located and they knew it three months ago, why haven't they found her?
DAVE HOLLOWAY

She was born Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, and she did not open her ...
SHANNON HALE If you feel so empty
So used up, so let down
If you feel so angry
So ripped off so st...
THREE DAYS GRACE Sarah Palin may have chosen to not answer the call for the presidency, but make no mistake, the prin...
TAMMY BRUCE I was born out of a Vegas marriage: My parents got married three days after they met.
ELLE KING

She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of ma...
MARGARET SANGER I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for...
MALIK JACKSON

Sarah Palin appears to have no testable core conviction except the belief (which none of her defende...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Hatred. Something almost as physical as walls, pianos, or nurses. She could almost touch the destruc...
PAULO COELHO

Sarah Palin uses me as a laugh line in her stump speeches. If you're willing to turn me into a joke,...
RACHEL MADDOW

He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the spac...
VIRGINIA WOOLF He's doing fine. Like most people his age, there are good days and bad days. You have to realize he ...
BERT COFFER The ease in which she was winning her first few matches just shows how fast she's back. I told her a...
MAHESH BHUPATHI She was making a lot more than the governor. And three months' paid leave. Who gets that?
AMANDA JACKSON

It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER The airlines go out of their way for the first two or three days after a bankruptcy filing to convin...
JOE BRANCATELLI Three months of sustained job creation shows that President Bush's agenda is helping our economy gro...
DONALD EVANS

I don't usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this 'hopey changey stuff...
NOAM CHOMSKY

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her i...
LAWRENCE DURRELL It was frustrating for me personally to get something done in two to three months through the organi...
DENNIS PARKER

I didn't have a special secret about Sarah Palin. I just had a feeling and some concerns. Her bl...
NICOLLE WALLACE I myself have raised plenty of questions about Sarah Palin, much to the annoyance of the McCain camp...
CAMPBELL BROWN At least two or three of them had been camping outside of her house for five days.
MARCEL PARISEAU Our lineup's been thin all year, ... We played without three guys for three or four out of six month...
JIM EDMONDS Now they focus more on the business drivers. They can do the business due diligence now in three wee...
KAORU KOYANO Lilliet Berne, La Generale, newly returned to Paris after a year spent away, the Falcon soprano whos...
ALEXANDER CHEE

It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics...
DEE DEE MYERS When friends would call and say something about this job or that job, I told them, 'The answer is th...
BUTCH DAVIS I told a girl it would bring her luck, so she patted him and returned about three hours later saying...
DAFYDD JAMES

Sarah Palin's a quitter.
JESSE VENTURA The pictures came out and everyone was going: ?Oh my God, she only had her baby three days ago and l...
ANNA FRIEL Britney proposing to me on a plane three months after we met, and getting married two months later w...
KEVIN FEDERLINE Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, my wife speaks five languages: Russian, English, French, Italian and...
CHEECH MARIN

If she be ,still a virgin, or one who returned ,to her first husband after leaving him, she is worth...
GURU NANAK John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment...
EDGAR BRONFMAN, SR. Three days off is a lot, it was enough.
MIKE KEANE After three and a half months, we felt we needed to put some space there.
BREE SMITH We expect in two or three months to do an ultrasound to check the embryos and eggs development. Afte...
NICK KIRBY As a dedicated and proud father of three, I am a strong advocate of life. I value life whether born ...
GRESHAM BARRETT

I do have to give it up for Sarah Palin on one account. She is brave.
ADAM MCKAY I have had enough of the sexist treatment of Sarah Palin... I call upon the McCain campaign to stop ...
CAMPBELL BROWN I spend probably six months of the year working outdoors three or four days a week.
BETH PHELAN Maria had a great tournament and was really consistent all three days. She makes everyone around her...
KIM EVANS Leslie has three children, and she takes a lot of pride in that she built her business around her fa...
JENNIFER ANTKOWIAK

'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set...
DEE DEE MYERS The one thing you should never do to a woman, whether you make love to her or fuck her, is apologise...
DIANNA HARDY The world is closely watching us, ... Why President Kim came to North Korea and why I accepted is a ...
KIM JONG IL

Sarah Palin is brilliant. She is a media magnet and a media magnate. She creates headlines and draws...
MARK MCKINNON And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers were retur...
BIBLE To us it's a trend because we won't have it here in three or four months, after it stops being trend...
RON KAMIONKA You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unb...
WHY YAWNING IS CONTAGIOUS Whether it is 1-0 or 6-0, it is three points.
ROWAN ALEXANDER

“It’s our three month anniversary.”
Her eyes widened in panic. “Today? I t...
KELLEY ARMSTRONG But for the last two days, we've been trading over 800,000 a day, which is probably a good three tim...
DAVID BEIRNES It is one thing if it is three weeks. Three months, that is another story.
AMY WALTER Whether or not her death was because of bird flu, we will wait before confirming, as is standard, fr...
NYOMAN KANDUN I think it [marrying into the Royal Family] is something Sophie?s mother is quite concerned about. S...
ANDREW MORTON Susan Polk defended her life against a vengeful, aggressive man who was also her husband.
DANIEL HOROWITZ I love this book. I'm a mother myself. I have three boys, and I really sympathize with Sarah, who ha...
KAREN ROBARDS That was part of the propellant that got her associated with our organization. Her son Larry Carleto...
HOWARD MORTON We didn't have an answer for Lund. She hit the three when we doubled on her. We jumped out hard on h...
DON LYONS Newman threw pretty well for her first time out. After Jeter threw 18 innings (Monday), we asked Dom...
DAN MARSHALL As for Celaena," he said again, "you do not have the right to wish she were not what she is. The onl...
SARAH J. MAAS She's just a great player. We had three different players guard her and the girls did a great job ho...
BRANDY CORBETT Three flies can consume a carcass at the same rate as a full-grown lion. If the temperature and the ...
EMILY CRAIG About three days. Shortest colleague ever. There was too much food around, right? Couldn't stop eati...
TRACY AUSTIN After the first one, it wasn't too bad, ... It took a long time to get that first one. After three w...
TONY DUNGY I was born in that family. So I don't know the difference between born as an actor's son and...
RAM CHARAN These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for thr...
CHARLES STURT Sarah Palin is treated like a bimbo sometimes, but she has never given the public the respect they d...
GAIL COLLINS You cannot stop her right now. She might be the best post player in the country right now as a fresh...
GARY BLAIR This solitude opressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all e...
E.M. FORSTER What she's saying is there has to be a reason because she knows her son was not there,
JULIA RENFRO For people in our e-mailing files, a message is sent two or three days before an item is due to remi...
DEB BEISELL It will come out after the election. In two or three months' time we will live in a different world.
GYORGY BARCZA It is the next two or three days that are vital,
MICHAEL MEACHER I'm off at least three or four days a week, so it's a perfect job, really.
JAMES DENTON A lot of those songs are actually about Sarah, who I was recently divorced from about five or six mo...
GENE WEEN After three days, I think you'll see the bombers climbing up there.
FUZZY ZOELLER That's been our ticker right there. It takes three components to win a game, and we forgot one of ou...
BOB BRUGLIO She's talking straight. Her son was killed, and she wants to know why.
BURT COHEN I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you'...
LIBBA BRAY I am constantly asked why I never made other films after 'There's No Business Like Show Business,' t...
JOHNNIE RAY Valerie saw Cesaire's eyes resting upon Suzette's reclining form. Valerie wondered whether he really...
CATHERINE HARDWICKE Three years after my birth, my mother swells again. When Lanka is born and brought home, Shiva and I...
NAYOMI MUNAWEERA She'd go past three of my defenders and ended flipping the ball from the corner both times, coming f...
CARMEN SCHOOLCRAFT If there be three distinct and separate Persons, then three distinct and separate Substances. . . . ...
WILLIAM PENN She did a great job. She's a senior, a three-year varsity starter -- we expect that from her.
TIM ANDERSON Some people there have not eaten or drunk water for three or four days, which is inexcusable.
JOSEPH MATTHEWS She is focused on getting home to her three children. For her the argument is over, she is headed ho...
ANGELA SIMS She is focused on getting home to her three children. For her the argument is over, she is headed ho...
ANGELA WARNER SIMS Through informal discussions two or three months ago, I thought it was premature with all the work I...
JOSEPH WISE We're going to discover as time goes on that there is some adversity ... They are not in love with e...
BRENT SPINER The first three off the tip, we didn't even see her. That killed us right there. ... They went at it...
BRITTNEY DAUM Pilate's skeptical sneer "What is truth?" was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in fr...
PETER KREEFT As recently as three years ago, the natural progression from seed to exit [either IPO or acquisition...
KIRK WALDEN There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or...
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SUSAN LIEBERMAN I was the daughter of an immigrant, raised to feel that I needed to get excellent, flawless grades a...
SUSAN CHOI Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and la...
SUSAN ORLEAN The best thing I could say is you do have to be a really good listener. If I go to a family reunion,...
SUSAN STRAIGHT When you think of Yahoo, they had a shot to be what Vox is doing, in terms of taking content and dis...
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Why is it our business whether Sarah Palin returned to her job as governor three days after her son was born, or three months? Is there a right answer?

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Why is it our business whether Sarah Palin returned to her job as governor three days after her son was born, or three months? Is there a right answer?

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