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...tentatively titled Decision Points. According to the publishing house, "the book will not be a conventional memoir, but instead will focus exclusively on approximate a dozen of the most interesting and important decisions in the former President's personal and political life" - including his decision to quit drinking, his reaction to 9/11, his response to Hurricane Katrina; and how he found faith. (See photos of Crawford, Texas...
...reaction to the bonus issue is that Congress is in the midst of passing a bill to tax the payouts at a 90% rate, punishing people for taking money that they appeared to be entitled to and doing nothing to the management that agreed to the deals in the first place. The tax will not be the end of the blow-up. Indignation makes good theater for politicians and makes some of their more naive constituents think that their elected officials are looking after their best interests...
...team of Harvard researchers, led by Professor of Psychology Daniel T. Gilbert, conducted two experiments in which Harvard undergraduates were asked to predict their reaction to events given either information about the event itself or surrogate information about the experience of another undergraduate who had experienced the event...
...heartening to see that at a time when so many things - credit, confidence, consumer demand - are in short supply, our political leaders are still able to muster such bounteous supplies of outrage. Outraged people often do dumb things, though, and my initial reaction to the many declarations of fury was to roll my eyes and mutter something about this being a trivial distraction from the Important Things we need to be dealing with. (I suspect that similar sentiments on the part of Geithner and Summers largely explain their politically tone-deaf handling of the bonus affair.) (See 25 people...
...party,” dedicated to “citizen’s rights, equality, freedom from British rule, and harmonious working relationships.” “We’re in a better place than we were 15 years ago,” Adams said. In reaction to a recent spate of violence in Northern Ireland, Adams advocated a “political alternative to war, a peaceful way to move forward.” “It was interesting to hear his side of what happened in this conflict, since there has been much press...