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Mamet is so into jujitsu that not only did his daughter train here, but also his rabbi does. Mamet says it has taught him to be less aggressive than his characters. "One of the wonderful things I've learned from this is, in any confrontation, turn to the side. If someone says, 'You son of a bitch,' is he hurting me? Let the argument go. Take the fight out of your expression. No one ever won a fight by looking tough. It's a good lesson in life, and I'm still working on it," he says before failing...
...writers like Richard Dawkins (The Selfish Gene) and Robert Wright (The Moral Animal) have taught us, it is hard to draw the line between aspects of the human condition that are genetically determined and aspects that are the result of free will. The science of evolutionary psychology can explain why you work hard and how you developed the talent for glad-handing that has served you so well. Even these behaviors are in your genes, just like a predisposition to develop cancer...
...question is usually put as one of nature vs. nurture. But there is not much difference between nature and nurture when it comes to fairness. Maybe your parents passed on great genes, or they passed on a few million dollars, or they were just terrific people who taught you the values of thrift and hard work. Even in the case of thrift and hard work, how much credit do you deserve for inheriting those fine values? How is it different from inheriting good genes? Answer: it's not much different...
...course, Buffett will be gone, but he has already lined up a group of (so far unnamed) people to take over. And if there is anything Buffett has taught, it is that you invest in the company, not on the news. The day Buffett dies or retires, the stock price will probably fall, says shareholder Carl Hagberg, who plans to do as Warren would: "I'll be calling my broker to buy more...
Lucas details a 1984-style "History According to the Kremlin" now being taught in classrooms, according to which Josef Stalin, the greatest mass murderer in history, was a patriot who did what had to be done to defeat fascism. And he also examines the Kremlin's repeated use of its ample energy resources to threaten its Western-oriented neighbors. Most troubling is what Lucas calls "pipeline politics" - Moscow's plans to build the Nord Stream gas pipeline from the Shtokman Field in the Barents Sea to the German city of Greifswald; and its attempts to derail Western plans to install...