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...Making India Work lays out what he hopes will be a blueprint for action: radically downsizing the national bureaucracy; giving substantive powers to elected neighborhood councils; creating a results-based, incentivized school system under the eye of a "standards authority." A self-described policy wonk, Bissell is clearly more interested in the details of governance than in big ideas (the subject of several recent books by Indian CEOs). "Let's go into the trenches," he says, with the air of the classic patrician philanthropist, "and see what needs to be done." (See pictures of India's health care crisis...
Throughout the series, Bill has displayed the charm, belief and obsessive drive of a born politician - or a dictator, whose ego is rarely clouded by the saving grace of self-doubt. For any man on a God-ordained mission, whether he's a Muslim or a breakaway Mormon, the end justifies the means, however shabby. Earlier this season, he pressured Don, his friend and business partner in the Home Plus stores, to "take the bullet" by outing himself as a polygamist, allowing an unsullied Bill to proceed with his campaign. Friends' lives ruined, his son ostracized: it must...
...Foreign Relations (ECFR), says that while Parliament members were sincere in their concerns over civil liberties, some were perhaps also a little over-excited to exercise their new authority. "The institutional landscape has changed," he says. "This is an early affirmation of the European Parliament's increased powers and self-confidence in the wake of the Lisbon Treaty. And it now has political ambition and the guts to exercise...
...with Jesper Parnevik: she should have used a driver. And there was a brief section early in the speech in which he extolled all the good works being done by the Tiger Woods Foundation - while it was nice to hear that those projects will continue, it also felt discordantly self-serving. I don't think he's done with the confessionals, though - he'll need to answer real questions, from someone. (Tiger: Call us anytime.) He can't keep giving prepared, rehearsed speeches under soft lighting. So how long do you think he stays away from golf? (See if Tiger...
...enough? Not to everyone. "For Tiger the brand, the apology is an epic fail," says Coombs. "It is too little too late. Many sports writers have mocked today's media event, saying no self-respecting journalist would attend because you can't ask questions. When the media mocks the format of your apology, then it's a failure regardless of the content." Paul Furiga, president of WordWrite Communications, agrees, saying, "What is the takeaway? The headline? The moral of the story? Tiger failed to deliver one that is clear and compelling." There is still no alternative label for Woods than...