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...different then. It was a lot more spontaneous. Kids were coming to the city-beautiful girls, good looking guys-and they'd sell themselves around town, hoping someone would pick them up and give them a six-month studio contract. It seems much more calculated now. Not to mention television. Television just eats up everything. You can have a career start over the weekend on television...
...DELHI, INDIA Dream Over "No one dares mention the word shares in our house these days," whispers New Delhi software engineer Sandeep Goyal, "especially not when Dad's around." It's soon evident why. His father, a retired banker, is watching a religious sermon on a Sony flat-screen TV that, along with Sandeep's shiny new HP laptop, is a very visible sign of newfound affluence in the living room of the Goyals' modest home. "I warned him," the ex-banker says suddenly. "Never put all your eggs in one basket. He should have invested in government bonds...
...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...
...McCain tried in the final debate to say that his own brand of change is good change. A tough move. The hardest thing in politics is for the incumbent party to run on change. Remarkably, it was at the end of the last debate when McCain remembered to mention that the Democrats have controlled Congress for the past two years...
...very surprised to see that you didn't mention Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond, for his book Collapse. If everyone read this book, the world would be a better place. He has certainly informed the public of environmental dangers better than most of those other people, who we've never heard of. Kathy Raynaud, VOIRON, FRANCE...