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...rounds--one that London hasn't really asked itself before: Has London become too reliant on a single industry, putting all its eggs into one volatile basket? "Obviously people see it as a risk, and if there's a prolonged downturn, it will become an issue," says Andrew Goodwin, a senior economist at Oxford Economics, who nonetheless believes that while "there is a concern about dependency, financial services have done well historically...
...that's no guarantee of success; Woodrow Wilson, the only President with a Ph.D., never won over a majority of voters. More important is the confidence that lets you welcome smart people around you - and hope they disagree. Hence Lincoln's famous "team of rivals," says biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin. "How can you do this?" people asked him when he stocked his Cabinet with former adversaries. "He said, 'Look, these are the strongest and most able men in the country. The country's in peril. I need them by my side.' He had the internal self-confidence to know that...
Perhaps even more important than intelligence is vitality: Tigger beats Eeyore any day. F.D.R.'s success, argues Goodwin, reflected as much his infectious optimism as his eloquence: "To have gone through his own adversity with polio and still remain optimistic and upbeat - all of that was what he projected to the country during the Depression," she says. "They had faith in themselves because he had faith in them." McCain had his fortitude forged by fire in a prison camp; he throbs with an energy of someone who has never stopped making up for lost time. He burns more calories sitting...
...Amro - blew a big hole in its balance sheet. "It's immensely regretful we're coming to shareholders to raise funds again," said RBS chairman Tom McKillop. "It's something we feel bad about." So bad, in fact, that McKillop now plans to quit next year; RBS CEO Fred Goodwin resigned Monday, as did his counterpart at HBOS...
...download; you’re watching “Lossless #1,” the first piece in the fall exhibition Lossless at the Carpenter Center’s Sert Gallery. Lossless is a collection of five deconstructed and digitally reworked films by artists Rebecca Baron and Douglas Goodwin. Inspired by the contemporary trend of file sharing, Baron and Goodwin altered the films by manipulating the technology behind them. Interruption of data streaming, the removal of basic information, and other digital methods allow the artists to dematerialize existing films into confusing and surprising visual commentaries. More than just a critique...