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...will be any significant policy changes soon. He calls China's leaders "momentum players," observing that they are loath to change course while things are going well. After all, China has double-digit economic growth, huge trade surpluses, and more than a trillion dollars in foreign-exchange reserves. Why mess with success...
Neatness is overrated. Let those stacks of paper pile up on your desk. Don't worry about the laundry tossed in the corner. Let the icons clutter up your computer screen. And whatever you do, stop obsessing over your letter-perfect filing system. Bless your mess, says a new group of "mess-iahs" spreading the gospel of healthy disorganization...
...Orleans still a mess sixteen months after the storm...
...left no doubt that he didn't particularly like the CIA. He didn't understand how the place worked. He didn't trust the information it collected from its clandestine sources (humint, as it's called in the business). And he thought the CIA caused more mess than it was worth. As far as McConnell was concerned, the NSA collected all the intelligence the United States needed...
...That kind of calm confidence, seasoned by nearly 40 years in the Navy, has made quite an impression on Fallon's bosses - particularly President George W. Bush, who's looking for a steady military hand to help him turn around the mess in Iraq. This week Bush will announce he wants "Fox" Fallon ("Fox" comes from his call sign as a Naval aviator) to replace Gen. John Abizaid as head of the U.S. Central Command, which oversees the Iraq war and the entire volatile Middle East...