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...home in Paris that Bastille Day holiday, Alexandre's mother Véronique got the call at four in the morning telling her what had happened. "My instinct was to get on the first plane to Dubai," she says. But another instinct kicked in too - that of a veteran political journalist, with connections at the top levels of the Elysée Palace and the French foreign ministry. Within minutes of speaking to Alexandre, Véronique Robert - who spent years as a producer for Canal Plus Television - woke up French diplomats in Dubai, who dispatched the consulate's attorney...
Kennedy and Marshall have one of Hollywood's best Rolodexes and an instinct for building a team around a movie. "It's casting personalities as well as skills," says Kennedy. "If you have somebody who's intensely creative but they can't manage their way out of a paper bag, you bring somebody else in to augment that." The two producers also like to pair inventive directors of smaller-budget films (like Greengrass before Bourne and Schnabel now) with studio-caliber crews to surround an artistic mind with precision and experience...
...words. Can you sum up being an academic rock star in 5 words? Bonus rock star points for fewer words. SP: Oh my goodness, (long swig of coffee). Deep ideas, light touch.8. FM: In a similar vein, Geoffrey Sampson wrote an entire book countering the arguments in The Language Instinct. We think that makes you something of a badass. Can you talk a little bit about what the word badass says about human nature?SP: I think the “ass” is just like the “fuck” in “what...
There is nothing like a bad investment to make even the smartest person feel dumb. According to Zweig, a senior writer at Money magazine, it isn't entirely your fault. The appetite for money is a hardwired instinct that bullies our rational thoughts. Humans crave money so intensely, he writes, that the brain scans of a cocaine addict and someone about to receive cash look an awful lot alike. The good news: with self-awareness and a basic understanding of the brain's mechanics, we can dupe the greatest financial foe of all--ourselves. --By Carolyn Sayre...
...These are just warm-up rounds, tame compared with what's most likely in store. Who will emerge strongest after the rubble has settled? No one knows, of course, but one instinct tells me that Rudy will have lost less blood when it's all said and done, based on his experience in the mud pit of New York City politics. Giuliani has another card to play, too: he will be arguing, in effect, "I'm not perfect, but I'll keep you safer...