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They are different in so many ways: one Republican, one Democrat; one in his 70s, one in his 40s; one white, one black. But John McCain and Barack Obama share the genome of the alpha pol. Timing and instinct are among the dominant traits. How else to explain the fact that both men chose precisely the same day - nearly the same hour - to field press questions for the first time about the collapsing financial sector and the government's proposed $700 billion bailout? Like the cicada crawling up from the earth precisely 17 years after its mom lays her eggs...
...While I have some concerns about the pre-professional instinct that leads one to choose to take an accounting course in the midst of a world class array of liberal arts classes, my quibble is not with the students who are taking accounting. In fact, I find much to admire in their pioneer spirit—they are willing to spend a little extra energy in order to learn about something in which they are interested...
...crisis in the Caucasus may offer the best illustration yet of both the assets and the limits of Sarkozy the diplomat: strong in instinct, deft in tactics, but short on strategic vision. His quick exercise in shuttle diplomacy between Moscow and Tbilisi was at the same time technically brilliant and strategically flawed. The deliberate vagueness of his cease-fire agreement secured Moscow's speedy signature, but also caused confusion over what Russia had to do to comply...
...Public Enemy Number One, Part 1 Directed by Jean-Francois Richet. Screenplay by Abdel Raouf Dafri, from the book L'Instinct de mort by Jacques Mesrine. With Vincent Cassel, Cécile de France, Gérard Depardieu, Roy Dupuis. From France...
...Bearing as many aliases - aka Mesrine, aka L'Instinct de Mort - as its subject, this true-crime bio-pic traces the exploits of the Clichy-born criminal who made mischief on three continents in the 1960s and 70s. (A 1984 film, Mesrine, told the same story.) His life, at least as related in the prison autobiography that is the movie's source, put him in collusion or collision with all the gangster archetypes: a grizzled crime boss named Guido (Depardieu), a loyal and resourceful henchman (Dupuis), a tough-n-sexy babe (de France) to play Bonnie to his Clyde...