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...does have an inconvenient habit of speaking his mind. At Tsinghua, he told audience members they ought to limit their driving to the weekends, a nonstarter in U.S. politics if ever there was one. In our interview, he suggested that Americans should get over their need for gas-guzzling speed ("Believe me, 0 to 60 [m.p.h.] in 8.5 sec. is fine") and meat-heavy diets ("We really don't need 12-oz. steaks every day") before he realized he was making energy transformation sound like a bummer - and abruptly changed the subject. "I don't want to deliver too many...
...Obama Administration has been at odds with the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over settlement activity in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, and Huckabee has used his trip to accuse Obama of zigzagging on pledges he made to Israel during the 2008 campaign. "Our primary concern ought to be whether or not Iran is weaponizing nuclear material, not whether 20 peaceful Jewish families happen to be moving into a neighborhood in their own country," he said...
...point is that this is an exceptional time, when we are hit by a very severe recession and just when the needs are the greatest, the amount of money available from traditional sources has been decimated by the financial crisis. Therefore those who are in a better position ought to do more than they normally do. So I continue all the programs of the Open Society Institute. This is additional, and it's something I would not do unless we were in such an exceptional situation. Hopefully it won't be necessary to do it again. (Read "The Case...
Although the famous Chinese curse May you live in interesting times is not, in fact, a Chinese curse, given China's enabling role in our present predicament it ought to be. Since the fall of 2007, 35% of the value of publicly traded companies has evaporated, along with $3 trillion worth of home equity - $10,000 per American man, woman and child - and five million jobs. Iconic businesses and whole industries are variously dead and dying...
...jellyfish through a thick wall of aquarium glass. But given a chance to swim with invertebrates and not get stung, would you? If you have a little backbone - and have enough time and money to make your way to the tiny Pacific island nation of Palau - the answer really ought to be yes. (Read "Palau: Next Stop After Gitmo...