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...write about the death three years ago of your partner Howard Auster. You say that after a time, you never were intimate but shared everything else. Is that a formula for happiness you recommend...
When the caution flag comes out in Formula One (F1) racing, crews typically use the opportunity to bring their cars in for a pit stop. But when yellow came out in the 25th lap of last year's Monaco Grand Prix, Team McLaren Mercedes made the counterintuitive decision to keep driver Kimi Raikkonen on the track. The ploy worked; Raikkonen won. But the decision wasn't made at trackside. It came from team leaders based at the McLaren Technology Center in leafy Woking, south of London, who were using prediction software they had developed to help them make split-second...
...salvage Iraq is unworkable, since it relies on cooperation from the Iraqi people. All the polls show that a majority of the Iraqi people want us to leave. We are basically a Christian army waging war in an Islamic country. That was, is and always will be a formula for disaster...
...finally there is the reality that the 2008 presidential campaign will be under way, and Reid oversees a chamber that is brimming with potential contenders of both parties. Primary politics in both parties rewards grandstanding and ideological purity, not compromise and teamwork. That's hardly a formula for compromise-- or for getting much of anything done...
...director Ridley Scott’s “A Good Year” still manages to entertain. The film’s plot line is familiar, and holds very few twists. Included within is the traditional “boy meets girl, girl changes boy” formula along with the rather tired “city-boy leaves city, falls in love with country, understands error of former city-boy ways” trope. Despite his reliance on over-used plot structures, Scott presents a film that both charms and captivates the audience. Some credit...