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...some reason, I find it a strangely refreshing attitude, and take great comfort in the shared grumbles of my compatriots. Recently, during a company presentation at work, I realized the reason for my seemingly illogical preference for complaints...
...That cooler we filled with five bottles of water, two bags of cherries, Boursin, non-gluten salsa, chive-and-onion cream cheese, and a zillion ice cubes? Felt like a great idea when we packed it back home. Now It just feels like I'm dragging all of Brüno’s wardrobe down Fifth Avenue...
Washington politics may not be good at producing health-care reform, but it's great at creating catchy new lingo. Getting "Borked." "Hanging chads." "Lipsticks on pit bulls." The latest is "wise Latina," two words that have been repeated ad nauseam since the middle of May, when conservatives started flogging the text of a 2001 speech given by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor at the University of California, Berkeley. In that talk - on the subject of a Latino presence in the American judiciary - Sotomayor now famously said, "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness...
...much economic weight as the G-7 group of Western powers plus Japan. This sounds like bad news for the U.S. - and it will certainly bring all sorts of new complications to the global political scene. From a purely economic standpoint, though, the rise of the BICs is great in that it offers the only remotely attractive path out of our current conundrum...
...while U.S. economic dominance appears to be giving way to something more muddled, this doesn't imply absolute decline. The U.S. retains a lot of strong points - great universities, millions of ambitious immigrants, a culture that celebrates risk-taking - that are hard for any other nation to match. Just because the U.S. is no longer all-important doesn't mean it will no longer be competitive. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...