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...almost devoid of charisma. She assiduously avoids reporters and, whenever possible, political events. She shows scant comprehension of economics or international affairs, and seems entirely out of touch with the galloping high-tech industry that's driving the economy. She refuses to respond to personal attacks over her foreign birth, or to make any of her own. She has learned a halting Hindi, but her improving fluency only highlights her failure to spell out any vision for the nation, prompting the joke that she is inarticulate in three languages. And experience has failed to make her a more inspired political...
...hundreds of years to rescue babies from women in medical crisis. (Legend has it that Julius Caesar was born this way.) Rather, they had an increasingly popular modern-day variation: planned, scheduled operations for all sorts of less-than-critical reasons. One young college student arranged her baby's birth to avoid conflict with her final exams. Another woman was convinced a C-section would ensure that her child's head had a nice round shape. Others are terrified of labor pains and complicated deliveries or want to avoid the wear and tear on their bodies. Some, as the British...
...France, we make movies for the art of it," Kassovitz says. "It's only art movies that come out." Not so in the U.S., where the box office rules. France's priciest production ever, Jean-Jacques Annaud's just-released Two Brothers, about two tiger cubs separated at birth, cost about 360 million - a little more than the average U.S. film. Even a quirky, just-off-mainstream U.S. project like Gondry's Eternal Sunshine got a generous budget of about $35 million. Kassovitz speaks for many of his colleagues when he says: "I want to be able...
Perhaps it will take unattached bankers several years to produce the next generation, but nine months in i-banking has given birth to many reflections about...
...people talk about birth order--firstborns are driven and born leaders, last borns are gregarious and outgoing, middle borns are mediators. As far as I understand it, the evidence for those personality-based theories is pretty weak. But even if it were strong, the links are really weak between personality and the kind of outcomes I'm interested in: who's succeeding in school, who's making more money...