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...game in the Browniverse: at its most basic level the Brownian fantasy is that coincidences aren't just chance, and things are not just things: they mean something. Brown's hero, Robert Langdon, is after all a symbologist (following a branch of human intellectual inquiry that - it cannot be stated enough times - doesn't exist, at Harvard or anywhere else). Beneath his learned, oddly asexual caress, objects come to life and become symbols. A V isn't just a V, it's a chalice, a symbol of the eternal feminine. Chaos is secretly order. Noise is secretly signal...
President Barack Obama did warn in his speech to Wall Street on Monday that "normalcy cannot breed complacency." But normalcy is breeding complacency - perhaps because complacency is normal. Consider the financial reforms that the Obama Administration wants to push through Congress before year-end - creating a Consumer Financial Protection Agency, giving the Federal Reserve the job of systemic risk regulator, and establishing a "resolution regime" to wind down troubled nonbank financial institutions (like Lehman) and complex bank holding companies in an orderly fashion. Steps in the right direction? Probably. Truly major reforms? Not so much...
...Harriman, Dean Acheson and the like - who remade international institutions at the end of World War II would not have been able to do what they did without the assistance of Arthur Vandenberg, the powerful chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, so reform of the financial system today cannot bypass Representative Barney Frank, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee...
...crushing my Dorothy Parker-level quips, like "Beer summit koan: If you dispel low-income racial tension by removing alcohol, you dispel upper-income racial tension by adding alcohol," with Shaqisms like "Happy birthday, harry potter main charachter dude." I am being beaten by a man whose giant fingers cannot even hit the correct keys. (See excerpts from the world's most popular Twitterers...
...unannounced, clandestine trip by an Israeli head of state to Moscow. Simply put, Israel has proven itself unafraid to take direct, dramatic action to keep Iran in check. If Israel will not hesitate in playing tough with a country as powerful and potentially belligerent as Russia, the West cannot assume it will hesitate to use a similar “shoot first, ask questions later” policy in the future...