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...jump-start his creative juices, the Pulitzer winner and best-selling author (Den of Thieves) practices piano for an hour each morning. "The thorniest kind of music, like Bach, is best," he says. "It refreshes the brain because you can't do it unless you exclude everything else and concentrate." To stay creative, he believes, one must cultivate curiosity. "I love reading the paper with an eye to what's missing. I get all kinds of ideas from that...
...candidate to be the next Prime Minister of Iraq. Chalabi's renewed friendliness with the Bush Administration is his key qualification to be the Bush-approved Prime Minister of Iraq. Chalabi can be counted on to open Iraqi oil fields for business with American corporations and to attempt to jump-start trade deals with the U.S. Although Klein expresses some surprise at Chalabi's comeback, it is likely that the Iraqi never really left the Administration's neoconservative camp. Charles Orloski Taylor, Pennsylvania...
...well as the notion that invading U.S. troops would be greeted as saviors by the Iraqis. Those missteps do not make him an ideal candidate to be the next Prime Minister of Iraq. But Chalabi's renewed friendliness with the Bush Administration shows he can be counted on to jump-start Iraqi oil sales and trade deals with the U.S. CHARLES ORLOSKI Taylor...
...program that she has been instrumental in developing. Each team will comprise about 50 State Department officials and the same number of military civil affairs personnel. Their mission will be to funnel money and expertise to grassroots Iraqi political leaders, business people and non-governmental organizations working to jump-start government services, schools, health care and security...
...impossible to say whether innate differences in the brain were driving the ambitious behavior or whether learned behavior was causing the limbic to light up. But a number of researchers believe it's possible for the nonambitious to jump-start their drive, provided the right jolt comes along. "Energy level may be genetic," says psychologist Simonton, "but a lot of times it's just finding the right thing to be ambitious about." Simonton and others often cite the case of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who might not have been the same President he became--or even become President...