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...Some observers wonder how long it will be before the Indian billionaires demand more for their IPL investment than six weeks a year of the players' time. Another concern is that the game has learned nothing from its recent betting scandals. The chief lesson there was that players engaged in matches whose result scarcely matters to them are vulnerable to the charms of bookmakers. Despite the vast amounts of money being tossed around, the real price of the IPL won't be known for some time...
...which is why it is so vital that there should be continued pressure on Pyongyang to verifiably dismantle its nuclear facilities. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew from Lee's inaugural to Beijing to reiterate that point to the Chinese authorities. No harm in that, but the real lesson of the past few years is that the Chinese get it. Alarmed by the potentially destabilizing impact of nuclear weapons on the peninsula, Beijing, Pyongyang's old ally, has been deeply engaged in the six-party talks between the North and the South along with Japan, the U.S. and Russia...
...learned that lesson early in life. When a business trip brought her to Washington, D.C. one Halloween, she decided our trick-or-treat plans lacked panache. I found myself in a Dalmatian suit following around my aunt—an unmistakable Cruella D’Ville—as she sang numbers from the Disney flick at one house after another...
...None of the candidates has said what concrete steps they would take to reorient the tools of American power to better handle the threats produced by weak states. And it's not clear how much of the strategic lesson has seeped up to the candidates from the advisors who know something about it. But for all the talk of the experience required to be Commander in Chief in the post-9/11 era, it might be useful to start asking...
...prime minister. Fillon was belittled as staid, wonkish and boring during Sarkozy's glittering first six months in power, but now he is enjoying a reputation as a solid, industrious executor of policy who tends to shun the bright lights now trained on the president. Perhaps there's a lesson there for Sarkozy...