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...this year, Kerry will have to fight back on foreign policy. But he needs a real response; simply saying that Bush mucked things up in Iraq isn?t enough. He has to have his own plan to win the war on terror, one that shows he would fight a smarter and even more aggressive campaign against al-Qaeda, one that shows he would work harder to keep weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of North Korea, Iran and terrorist groups...
...great writer. He lacks the intoxicating, Dionysian power of Salman Rushdie at his best, and the craftsmanship of Rohinton Mistry?his only real co-passengers in the first-class cabin of Indian novelists?but he can do what they can't: leave you feeling two or three IQ points smarter by the end of one of his novels. And with his passion for subjects like marine biology, Ghosh remains his nation's best hope when it comes to getting tens of thousands of fiction-glutted Indians to read something mind broadening. The next announcement by Amitav Ghosh that...
...Hawkish critics immediately called the new softening a retreat. But it was only one of many examples of shifting tactics. Bush won't change his mind when the French want to avoid a war at all costs, but he is willing to change course if there's a smarter way to get where he wants to go. He still thinks international institutions like the U.N. are feckless and weak, but he now understands they have a role to play...
...Briton Andrew Black was making a decent enough living as a professional gambler, concentrating mainly on playing bridge and betting on horses. But he was dissatisfied with traditional bookmakers. By the time they build in their margins, says Black, 41, "you've got to be 20% smarter to make money. And if [you] make a mistake, [you] can't trade out of it. I thought, 'There's got to be a better...
...detect,” Myers said. “That’s a very hard thing to test because maybe I can come in and not [be able to hack the system without being detected], but how do I know there isn’t someone smarter than...