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...Reagan's luck was to find a nation in trouble - in post-Vietnam retreat and disorientation. His political genius was to restore its spirit. And his legacy was winning the longest war in American history, the long twilight struggle of the cold...
...driven individuals. We do play by the rules of the game, and we are winning. And the goal of “winning” (however that is defined) is often a prime motivation. To cite the occasional exceptions to these trends—the counterculture rebel, the pure genius or the unquestionable saint—doesn’t undercut Brooks’ stereotype, which only seeks to describe the average student...
...part. Nothing that followed--not the bloody path to conquest through the Ardennes, not the fits and starts of rebuilding Europe from the ruins, not the forging of the postwar balance of power--surpassed in difficulty or cost the demands of that one day, when luck and fate and genius and nerve worked to give Freedom her victory. As we approach Memorial Day and another significant anniversary, as President Bush takes his turn honoring the memories on those haunted beaches, there's no avoiding the comparisons. To look back on that day from the middle of this...
...random gathering of people turned out to be an unexpected collective genius at ox-weight appraisal. Starting with this anecdote, James Surowiecki, financial columnist for the New Yorker, builds a fascinating case, summed up in his title and subtitle: The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations (Doubleday; 296 pages...
...when you watch a home movie of your third Sim great-grandchild, then buy her toys to turn her into the genius you know she will eventually want to be, you get some sense of the game's unusual long-term emotional hook. Imagine those Tamagotchi virtual pets looking just like your kid brother and endlessly spawning new generations of themselves...