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...George Clooney, 45, #8 last year. His 2006 film: The Good German, and yes, you're reading this right, so far it's earned only...
...resolution opposing the Patriot Act, Governor Schweitzer decided to put some icing on the cake by pardoning 78 Montanans who had been convicted of sedition during World War I--a far more egregious case of the government trampling civil liberties than the Patriot Act is. "Most of them were German immigrants," Schweitzer told me. "Some of them were arrested for speaking German in public, others for refusing to buy war bonds. We had a big ceremony, and family members from 31 states came to honor their ancestors. It got pretty emotional...
...said their employees now come from a wider array of countries than ever before. But asked how well prepared they thought their organizations were to succeed as global enterprises, 22% said they were either "extremely poorly" or "somewhat poorly" equipped. Strikingly, there were huge national differences, with British, French, German and Spanish executives showing the most confidence, Americans displaying average confidence, and Chinese and Japanese the least. Almost one in two of the Chinese and one in three of the Japanese polled by Accenture said they were poorly equipped to become successful global players...
...hard-core practitioners of the dismal science might crow. "Economics beats politics any time." The mighty dynamics of expansion seem to bear them out. So does the history of the first globalization, from 1850-1914. There were lots of small wars then: the Crimean one, the wars of German unification, a spate of long-forgotten battles over the Balkans, skirmishes from one end of Africa to another and throughout Southeast Asia. Yet international trade and investment prevailed over protectionist sentiment...
...struggle of the mind to fathom the brain it inhabits is the most circular kind of search--the cognitive equivalent of M.C. Escher's lithograph of two hands drawing one another. But that has not stopped us from trying. In the 19th century, German physician Franz Joseph Gall claimed to have licked the problem with his system of phrenology, which divided the brain into dozens of personality organs to which the skull was said to conform. Learn to read those bony bumps, and you could know the mind within. The artificial--and, ultimately, racist--field of craniometry made similar claims...