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...love dog movies for the same reason we love dogs. "A dog has no use for fancy cars or big homes or designer clothes," says Owen Wilson's character in Marley & Me. "A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, clever or dull, smart or dumb. Give him your heart, and he'll give you his." There it is: both dogs and dog movies afford us a chance to be incredibly sappy without feeling like a sucker. As the bajillion hits on Puppy Cam and the speculation over the particulars of the Obamas' hound of choice attest...
...think it made me look really smart,” he said. “Really I was just good at being on the Internet...
...movies, cable TV—as something no more serious than lifting paper cups from the dining hall. They get their songs and movies free and give them freely. Unlike their parents, they’re not fazed by LCD screens; they e-read on their laptops and smart phones more than they read on paper. Why pay $20 for a book, they ask, when you can download it for free? And these consumers will not suddenly become accustomed to buying books as they grow older; instead, they’ll pass this instinct on to their kids...
...years. I first met him 18 years ago, when we were both based in Tokyo. He was 29 years old then and was the deputy financial attaché at the U.S. embassy. We hit it off, as he did with many of the expat journalists in town: he is smart but not arrogantly so and has a wry sense of humor...
...during his undergraduate days at Dartmouth. "I think I took one course," he says. It is easy, given his relatively young age and his background, to view Geithner as the perpetual understudy to Summers' intellectual alpha dog. But friends of both say that oversimplifies their relationship. "Tim is whip-smart and has never hesitated to disagree with Larry on substantive issues if he felt Larry was wrong," says a former Treasury colleague of theirs. Geithner, moreover, has far better political fingertips. "He's the guy who'd say to Larry, 'Look, maybe you don't want to say that...