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In "The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America," Daniel Boorstin distinguishes between heroes, whose higher example can "fill us with purpose," and celebrities—each his own fleeting "human pseudo-event"—who "are nothing but ourselves seen in a magnifying mirror." But what about the ambitions or hopes of celebrities themselves? What is it that they really want? Sarah Palin's uncertain future raises this question.

—Sam Tanenhaus, "North Star." The New Yorker, Dec 7, 2009

Sorry to pull the second-to-last paragraph, but it was the best. :-þ