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...vaulting academic pedigree notwithstanding, he popularized among conservatives a polished and somehow posturing anti-intellectualism, caricaturizing his leftist opponents as effete and overly-cerebral nincompoops, and succeeding at it. He famously declared that he would “rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University...

Author: By David L. Golding | Title: The End of an Era | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

...unfortunate, to say the least, that one of the first actions of Britain's present Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, when he became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1997, was to remove the task of bank supervision from the Bank of England and entrust it to the agency responsible for the regulation of U.K. financial markets - perhaps under the erroneous belief that financial regulation and bank supervision were much the same thing. In fact, they are fundamentally different. In any event, although Northern Rock was pursuing a conspicuously high-risk business strategy, which enabled it to increase its share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Failure After Failure | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

Sometimes, I can’t believe what people will entrust me with...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn | Title: Respect My Authority! | 7/20/2007 | See Source »

...Despite Fujian's relative wealth, many talented youth still don't stick around. Instead, they entrust their lives - and their life savings - to the snakeheads who will shepherd them to new beginnings in the U.S., Japan and, now most of all, Europe. Around 20 people from Little Lin's own hamlet of 300 have left for Europe in the past decade, each one stopping in front of the village's holy banyan tree to ask for protection during the journey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dreams of Leaving | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

...Kainz, for the design of OpenEXR, a system, the Sherrybaby star said, "engineered to meet the requirements of the visual effects industry by providing for lossless and lossy compression of tiered and tiled images." There's a reason the Academy recruits smart actresses for this event - you wouldn't entrust Jessica Simpson with words like "lossy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Oscars for Techies | 2/11/2007 | See Source »

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