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...precisely what they mean, so we don't always understand their fragility," writes Gladwell, who is way too smart to be a cheerleader for the immediate. Gladwell argues that blinking is best when it is reinforced by a lifetime of study and expertise. Bush's blinks come in two basic varieties: judgments about people and about broad policy. Bush may be a master at judging people-though one wonders what he saw in Vladimir Putin's soul-but he hasn't spent much time learning the intricacies of getting a bill through Congress or thinking about how the pieces...
...apparent intention to develop nuclear weapons, whether to lift the arms embargo on China, whether to sanction Syria for occupying Lebanon and aiding Iraqi insurgents and Hezbollah terrorists, and whether Europe should brand Hezbollah itself a terrorist organization. At the core of many of these issue is a basic bone of contention: whether foreign policy should be conducted with a carrot or a stick. But with the U.S. feeling the need for allies and the E.U. feeling its oats as a global player, European leaders have an even simpler question: Is America ready to treat the E.U. as more than...
...managed care to the way insurance companies cover or fail to cover alternative therapies--works against this. "We don't teach medical students enough about pain, even though it's the most common reason people go to doctors," complains Fishman of U.C. Davis. "We've really wandered from a basic philosophy in medicine, where you cure what you can but always treat suffering, to being focused only on curing...
...basic position I hold in the book,” he said, “is that while we do have responsibilities to certain identities and that we’re not free to do, as it were, absolutely anything in terms of them, people are responsible themselves in the management of different identities and their priorities in different contexts...
...basic position I hold in the book,” he said, “is that while we do have responsibilities to certain identities and that we’re not free to do, as it were, absolutely anything in terms of them, people are responsible themselves in the management of different identities and their priorities in different contexts...