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...disaster, the key is to remain calm and make informed choices. If you're a dork. Disaster is actually a great excuse to do whatever you want. What is a riot if not a chance to grab a free flat screen...
...with the Great Depression II: Greater and Furiouser? approaching, this was a year of massive risk-taking. At every turn, we used chaos as an opportunity to take the nest egg and gamble it--but only after leveraging that nest egg with complicated derivatives that would famously come back to bore the crap out of us. (See the top 10 everything...
...have borrowed again, and not from fellow Americans--but from China, Japan and other countries. Have we come to the point that we may have more clout in the world militarily but others have more clout economically? I have read that what really brought the U.S. out of the Great Depression was World War II. Could it be that what brought the U.S. out of the Depression of the 1930s was the savings and the controlled spending of the people--along with the borrowing that took place during the war? Bill Brouwers, MIDDLEBURY...
...solid on all the big stuff. He refused to take tawdry short cuts, like supporting a "gas-tax holiday" during the primaries against Hillary Clinton. He has, since the election, remained true to the promises and philosophy he proposed during the campaign. Most important, he restrained himself--despite great temptations, despite exhortations from the press--to get into the gutter with his opponent. He kept his cool, which was the strategy, of course, but it was also his natural inclination. He offered a dignified, honorable campaign to a nation that badly needed...
...featuring on TIME's cover a Chinese philanthropist, working creatively and energetically within China, it is my hope that you will inspire other global media organizations to focus more on homegrown solutions and solution providers. Bono, Bill Clinton and Bill Gates (and I dare say Madonna) are doing a great job in Africa. But surely there are African philanthropists and social entrepreneurs who also deserve a spot in the limelight - even if the power of their checkbooks is nowhere near that of the aforementioned? Tolu Ogunlesi, Abeokuta, Nigeria...