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...random gathering of people turned out to be an unexpected collective genius at ox-weight appraisal. Starting with this anecdote, James Surowiecki, financial columnist for the New Yorker, builds a fascinating case, summed up in his title and subtitle: The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations (Doubleday; 296 pages...
...symptomatic of a fetishistic interest in the most insignificant minutiae of the presidency of John F. Kennedy. Either is fine, but decide now, because there's a lot more where that came from in Sally Bedell Smith's Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House (Random House; 608 pages...
...Ghraib Prison is, even by Iraq's perversely high standards, a place with a barbarous history. During Saddam Hussein's cruel regime, torture, humiliation and random murder were standard fare within its walls. That was all supposed to have changed when coalition forces took over last year and began filling the jail with captives from the motley Iraqi resistance. But it seems that echoes of those unsavory traditions have persisted...
...motives couldn’t do it, too? As it turns out, the TSA has known about its Swiss cheese airport security for a while. In July, 2002, it conducted an internal test of its security procedures at the 32 largest airports in America. Even with the newly instituted random checks, enormously inconvenient lines and physical patdowns, the screeners missed an average 25 percent of the fake weapons that TSA agents were carrying on their person or in their bags. At Cincinnati, one of the most traveled airports in the country, screeners missed an incredible 68 percent of the contraband...
...lecture outline annotated with love notes. “I hate this place” scribbled on an index card in Cabot. Melancholy love musings on the back of photographs. Random stuff is everywhere—on a person’s shoes, in dorm stairwells and tucked in tattered textbooks...