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...performance as an executive that seems to win most praise, however. "The man is brilliant," says one political aide in Baghdad. "He decided early on he had to go beyond the book." Chafing at the Pentagon's penny-pinching bureaucracy, Petraeus - whose Princeton thesis was entitled "The American military and the Lessons of Vietnam" -opted early on in the occupation to spend every cent of his discretionary budget on community projects around Mosul. Minutes into TIME's interview this week, he can scarcely wait to report that the defunct asphalt factory in Mosul which he reopened last year...
...potential has just been released. "McSweeney's Quarterly Concern" ($24; 264 pp.), a hi-class periodical that traditionally features eccentric forms of prosody, has dedicated its latest issue, number 13, to showcasing all - every single one it seems - of North America's most important living comic creators in a brilliant, gorgeous package...
...sweet: "Whether in the high rise where you live like Rhoda or in the shack and you live like Yoda/Once again it's on, like a brand new morn/Beatsie Beatsie Boys here to keep you all warm." When they're being idiots, the aging Beastie Boys are still quite brilliant...
...captivated by the show's cyborg premise that she started reading books that reaffirmed the concept of integrating machines with humans. A thousand reruns and an electrical-engineering Ph.D. later, she's creating robots that think like humans for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "The Bionic Woman showed real, brilliant people giving life through bionics," says Howard, now 32. "I figured I could do it too." After detouring from artificial limbs to artificial intelligence, Howard is currently developing software that will enable J.P.L.'s forthcoming Mars probes to choose their landing sites and navigate the Martian surface by mimicking...
...brilliant in the use and elaboration of evidence...archeological evidence, coins, fossilized pollen,” Hankins says...