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Larry Horowitz Breathe deeply! A landscape painter who uses the brush to make poetry. In his use of color and observations of nature, he reminds me of the glorious, magnificent world in which we live. His book lives on my desk...
None of this means Geithner will be a success as Treasury Secretary. He's still got to actually succeed at nursing the financial system back to health. "Hank [Paulson] was in emergency-room care," says Paul McCulley, a managing director and head of the short-term-bond desk at money-management giant Pimco, "whereas Tim is still in emergency-room care but also preparing a room for further care after the emergency." He at least shows signs of having a good bedside manner...
...asked me to tell you my favorite movie, I would have a hard time not saying Titanic. (See the 100 best movies of all time.) 21. I once sent a teacher into early retirement by pretending to be a cheetah and swiping at her from under a desk. 22. I once ran into New Kids On the Block's Joey McIntyre in the lobby of an off-Broadway show. I told him he was the first boy I ever loved. He laughed and kind of smiled. This was the most gratifying moment of my life. 23. My friends say that...
Like Palin, Dati is a special case; but the harder the times, the heavier the symbolism. And since Dati raced back to her desk amid a global economic meltdown, her decision took on a public as well as a personal dimension. A French feminist compared her to women in the 1920s who gave birth on the factory floor and kept working for fear of losing their job. Another called her choice "scandalous" since employers could use it to "put intolerable pressure on women" to take less time off. What a pernicious example at a moment when workers are already anxious...
...Copenhagen? The answer is hardly certain. The first attempt at a national cap-and-trade bill, last year's Warner-Lieberman Act, didn't make it out of the full Senate. The U.S. has a new, greener President, but the sheer number of legislative priorities sitting on his desk could make cap and trade impossible to achieve this year. That doesn't mean Copenhagen will come and go without a deal, but, under the pressure to get something on paper, it's possible the summit will produce a watered down agreement insufficient to the scale of the challenge posed...