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...second desirable quality of leadership, especially now, is toxic even to mention for its allegedly élitist overtones: intelligence. Not necessarily anything as crude as raw IQ scores, though something closer to that than to the kind of mystical wisdom attributed to Ronald Reagan. Call it intellectual curiosity, perhaps, or a willingness to engage with complicated ideas. This financial crisis is extremely complicated. Surely the best and the brightest can screw up, as they famously did in Vietnam. But four decades later (and after eight years of George W. Bush), maybe we can agree that on balance it would...
...supposed to work. Do you? Does Tom Brokaw? Do Obama and McCain? I suspect that one of them does and the other doesn't. But I don't know. I can't help thinking it would be nice to have a President who understands it. That's the kind of leader we want: one who could get us back to business as usual...
Religulous Bill Maher's whirlwind of a documentary is deeply felt, rigorous, outraged and the good kind of smart-alecky...
...three. On song after song, Pettibone's six-string acts as Williams' adoring foil, flirting with her between the lyrics on "Circles and Xs," replying with great gusts of seduction on "Knowing." On the album-ending AC/DC cover, they just roll around and laugh. It's exactly the kind of thing you'd play at a wedding...
...Dubal project is a template for the kind of investment Saudi Arabia wants to attract: it will be 100% foreign-owned and will probably generate several downstream businesses. The ownership is crucial; in the past, the only way foreign companies could operate in the kingdom was through joint ventures and local agents--many of whom brought no skills and little capital to the partnership. With that barrier gone, al-Dabbagh hopes investors will pour in: he expects the new cities to generate more than $100 billion in foreign investment. Saudi businesses may kick in two or three times as much...