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...that Wade Horn is not your typical George W. Bush appointee. For one thing, the 47-year-old volunteered for George McGovern and played guitar in a folk-rock ensemble that favored trippy tunes like A Horse with No Name by America. Unlike Rumsfeld or Powell, he's so soft-spoken, you have to lean in to hear him. When he spouts statistics about family-dissolution rates, you wonder how he found himself in the towel-snapping world...
...Roach, an economist for Morgan Stanley, said it's not whether the dollar will fall but by how much. "Our currency team believes the dollar is almost 15% overvalued - a classic setup for a fall," Roach said. Up to now, everyone assumes the path will lead to a soft landing for the dollar, but that's not necessarily true. "The alternative, a hard landing, still keeps me awake at night," says Morgan Stanley's Roach. While there's no need to panic now, that's a fear that should be shared throughout Europe. Until the euro rises...
During his term, the soft-spoken and well-liked President raised a record $2.6 billion for the University. He also is credited with building Harvard’s Afro-American studies department and advocating diversity...
While he mentioned that there were two main styles of leadership that people could adopt—soft spoken and thoughtful or aggressive and dominant—he urged the graduates to always listen and not shy away from seeking advice...
...best things about the "Dirty Stories" series is that women participate in it. For years I have wondered what became of Carol Swain, an English artist who did amusing, odd-ball stories in a soft pencil style. Suddenly here she is with "Silicon Valley Rest Home," where impotent, elderly ex-porn stars fall asleep in front of TVs that show tapes of their younger selves. Likewise it takes a woman, Ellen Forney, to include a sexy and educational instructional on how to best use your fingers "for her pleasure." The other non-fiction standout, "My, My American Bukkake," by Susannah...