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...Leaders We Deserve Challenging times require leaders who are bright enough to think creatively [Oct. 27]. I completely agree with Michael Kinsley that America needs a smart President for the tough years ahead. But voters in many Western democracies, Ireland included, have a tendency to shy away from politicians who are far more intelligent than themselves. Adlai Stevenson was one of the best examples of this. As for any politician completely understanding the global financial mess, well, sadly Einstein is not on any ballot. Robert Liffey, DUBLIN...
...wish I was smart enough to know. It's scary. I don't know how you turn that around...
...four denizens of New York City's Central Park Zoo - Alex the lion (Ben Stiller), Marty the zebra (Chris Rock), Gloria the hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith) and Melman the giraffe (David Schwimmer) - across several seas to an island off Africa. Madagascar was Oz with even more monkeys. It was smart, sitcommy and nicely congested. The sequel is more of the agreeable, strenuous same...
...Instead, you bring in a guy like Emanuel, the most hardheaded, no-nonsense, foul-mouthed, smart-as-hell, get-it-done-or-get-out-of-my-way Washington insider of his generation. And you put him in charge of a White House staff whose task it is - and this is putting it conservatively - to conceive, propose, promote and somehow push through Congress the most ambitious agenda any President has carried forth at least since Ronald Reagan rode into town with a lopsided grin in January 1981. "Rahm does not sing 'Kumbaya,' " says an old friend and colleague with a laugh...
...ever consider any other careers? I never really had a back-up plan, which looking back on it, probably wasn't very smart. As a little bitty kid competing in rodeo events, I made a little money and I thought, Wow, this is a lot better than having to get a real job. I think I'll just do this the rest of my life. I think it was a little frustrating for some of my teachers because they really wanted to give me an education just in case the whole bull riding thing didn...