Word: shrewd
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...Boies' aim in showing the video was to cast doubt on Gates' credibility, he seems to have hit the mark. (At one point, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson chuckled over a particularly blatant Gates evasion.) And there is no question that tearing down the defendant company's CEO is shrewd trial strategy. "It's damaging from a legal point of view when you have a judge hear a boss get up and lie," notes D.C. antitrust lawyer Donald Falk. "It may lead the judge to disbelieve the company's other rationalizations...
...when CBS tapped Mel Karmazin to be CEO, replacing Michael H. Jordan, CBS stock jumped. But it wasn't so much a bet on Karmazin as a sigh of relief that Jordan was leaving. Under Jordan, CBS has run last among the big networks. But can Karmazin, a shrewd TV and radio-station operator, fix the Tiffany Network's programming? Not exactly his forte...
...also fair to say that Benigni--whose self-love, if not his comic skills, could charitably be described as Chaplinesque, or perhaps more accurately as Robin Williamsish--devotes much of his film to peacetime passages overestablishing Guido's childlike yet shrewd, cheeky yet romantic character as a wise innocent, an idealized Everyman. His pursuit of his principessa, who is engaged to a local Fascist leader (and is sweetly played by Benigni's wife Nicoletta Braschi), and his casually farcical assaults on decorum and authority are, if you have a taste for simpleton comedy, inoffensive...
...fighting captain, brave and beefy, unsubtle except in naval matters and mathematics. Stephen Maturin, Irish and Catalan, sallow and scrawny, is a gifted surgeon who can whip off a shattered arm or leg and Bob's your uncle; he is also a naturalist, a rare linguist, and a shrewd intelligence agent for the British Admiralty...
...Dole has been warning the Republicans investigating Bill Clinton to avoid overreaching, which may explain why House Judiciary Committee chairman Henry Hyde last week floated the idea that the panel might focus on just a few of the 15 charges that are facing Clinton. Such downsizing may be a shrewd move, considering some of these great moments in the history of overreaching...