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...Which happens to be his strong suit. Through 4 1/2 hours of high-stakes presidential debating, Obama never looked unprepared, even for an instant. He looked slippery now and then - they all do. He looked boring sometimes. He even seemed to strive for boring, to understand that boring is good for the candidate in the lead...
...sweet. The White Tiger was the first book he bought for Atlantic, which hired him in 2006 after he was fired from a job at Random House. The novel was shown to him by Adiga's agent, who insisted that he read it that night and make an almost instant decision about whether to bid for it. "I sat down with the manuscript and after the first six pages I was just so excited," Mirchandani said. "When you're reading a first novel, you're often thinking: 'This is fantastic, keep it up, keep it up' " - only to find...
...challenging this notion of exclusivity, turning to the creed of open education. In 2001, Massachusetts Institute of Technology started to make course information available online. MIT OpenCourseWare (www.ocw.mit.edu) now contains over 1,800 courses, open to all, denying only the promise of a diploma. The program became almost an instant success. OCW averages one million visits each month, hitting a record high of two million hits a month in 2007. Almost half of the site’s visitors in 2005 were self-learners, according to a report completed...
National politicians usually have years to build these homunculi of themselves. The race to sculpt Public Palin was instant, and Fey had the sharpest chisel. Where Palin's campaign projected a smart, tough, folksy reformer, Fey showed a posing, in-over-her-head maverick...
...1990s, psychologist and social scientist Mahzarin Banaji of Harvard University co-created what's known as the implicit-association test (IAT), a way of exploring the instant connections the brain draws between races and traits. Previously administered only in the lab but now available online (at implicit.harvard.edu) the IAT asks people to pair pictures of white or black faces with positive words like joy, love, peace and happy or negative ones like agony, evil, hurt and failure. Speed is everything, since the survey tests automatic associations. When respondents are told to link the desirable traits to whites and the undesirable...