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...debut of Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth, served as the excuse for a typhoon of speculation about whether he was running for President in 2008. Senator Clinton's sturdy bran muffin of a speech about the environment-it read like a term paper but was filled with smart detail and inconvenient truthfulness-was almost totally ignored because the New York Times decided to print a front-page story revealing the shocking fact that she and Bill were...still married and a lot of people remain perplexed by their relationship...
...green as Kermit the Frog. He is a mere 44 years old and has been a member of the U.S. Senate for less than two years. He sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, but he has zero military and national-security experience. He's a very smart guy, a quick learner, but no one is that quick. If he runs and makes a fool of himself, a very promising political career could be suffocated in the crib. But somehow you get the feeling that Obama would not make a fool of himself-indeed, it is far more likely that...
...Message: As if to prove that smart equals sexy, Mortensen preached the value of activism to his alma mater's class of 2006 by quoting Seneca--in Latin: "Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt." Translation...
...Abbas is making a smart calculation that Hamas is less unified on its hostility to peace than its longstanding rhetoric would indicate, and he may be using the threat of a referendum over a negotiating position to exacerbate those divisions. Most polls show a solid majority of Palestinians backing the two-state option, and the proposed peace plan he put to Hamas was actually crafted by imprisoned leaders of both Fatah and Hamas, adding to its street credibility. So, while Hamas's leaders had hoped to put the issue of how it relates to Israel on the back burner while...
...this White House, like the two that preceded it, has long made it clear that Treasury will primarily execute what the West Wing decides. Someone like Robert Rubin, who became Treasury chief after running economic policy for Bill Clinton, could still hold sway over that process because he was smart, had already designed the game plan during his stint in the White House and had an unmatched track record on Wall Street. But this White House is a closed loop; if you aren't there, you don't matter very much...