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...suggested pulling out until some semblance of order is restored. Though the service continued operating before and through the U.S.-led invasion - boasting probably the deepest Western intelligence operations in Iraq before the conflict - officials say chaos in the country is so great "it's virtually impossible to collect solid, coherent information, which is what we're there...
...DEEPLY ambiguous about genius. We venerate Einstein, but there is no more detested creature than the know-it-all. In one 1996 study from Gifted Education Press Quarterly, 3,514 high school students were asked whether they would rather be the best-looking, smartest or most athletic kids. A solid 54% wanted to be smartest (37% wanted to be most athletic, and 9% wanted to be best looking). But only 0.3% said the reason to be smartest was to gain popularity. We like athletic prodigies like Tiger Woods or young Academy Award winners like Anna Paquin. But the mercurial, aloof...
...conservative, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (with 2,587 votes), over Brownback (2,191). Huckabee, a Baptist preacher, went easy on Jesus in his tent, performing Devil in a Blue Dress, among other secular classics, with his rock band, the Capitol Offense. (I thought his bass playing was pretty solid...
...financial markets all over the world, rockier now than they've been in over half a decade, rarely has an investing verity been more important: information - solid, accurate information - is as good as gold. When market pundits and analysts prattle on these days about the "re-rating of risk" and the lack of "liquidity" in the markets, what they are really talking about are gauges, however crude, of ignorance - and of fear based on ignorance. In the unfolding financial story of the year - the bursting of the global economy's credit bubble - "the biggest problem is we don't know...
...never met Ozawa, the man who could well be Japan's next Prime Minister. The two finally met Wednesday, only after Ozawa had previously snubbed the ambassador - and he made clear that he would continue to oppose continuing Japan's participation in Afghanistan operations. Bush forged a solid relationship with Abe, and both men supported the idea of a Japan that takes a much more assertive role within the security alliance. But with Abe weakened, and Japan possibly turning inward, "we could be at the beginning of a redefinition of the U.S.-Japan alliance," says Tanifuji. Such a shift would...