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Mitt Romney told the??Wall Street Journal last week that if he is elected President, he will "probably" hire McKinsey, the management-consulting firm, to tell him how to reorganize the government. "I'm not kidding," he said, tactfully adding that it might be another management-consulting firm such as Bain (where Romney worked for years and where he got rich) or the Boston Consulting Group. Or he just might call on Jack Welch, who retired years back as CEO of General Electric but has yet to be replaced in the Lee Iacocca Chair as America's semiofficial Business...
...naming the??iPhone the best invention of 2007, you forgot about Windows-based PDA phones [Nov. 12]. They've been out for years. Touch interface? Big deal. As you noted, it's been done before. A miniaturized operating system? Done. Windows-based phones are everything the iPhone is and more. The phones can text, MMS, e-mail (through POP, IMAP, Exchange), surf the real Web at broadband speed on EVDO networks and open, edit and save documents. The iPhone is for kids. Windows Mobile PDA phones are for adults who need to do real work...
Reams have been written on the??differences between Islamic and Western societies, but for sheer pithiness, it's hard to beat a quip by my former colleague, a Pakistani scholar of Islamic studies. I'd strolled into his office one day to find him on the floor, at prayer. I left, shutting his door, mortified. Later he cheerfully batted my apologies away. "That's the big difference between us," he said with a shrug. "You Westerners make love in public and pray in private. We Muslims do exactly the reverse...
While I am proud of the??U.S. and its democratic institutions, it is indeed sobering to compare the accomplishments of the Chinese Communist regime with our own tarnished image. The Chinese government, despite its political repression and failure to improve the lives of the rural poor, has fostered a newfound prosperity for millions of its people. Our government, on the other hand, condones the torture of war prisoners, uses massive computer surveillance to spy on its own citizens and continues to vainly pursue a war that kills our youth. China's Me Generation can ignore its government yet still admire...
...Floating Your Own Boat" about the??rise in the popularity of kayaking [Nov. 5]: In 2005 my son asked me if I wanted to look at kayaks with him. I went with him, took a kayak for a trial ride and bought it immediately. I can't adequately describe the pleasure of paddling on lakes, rivers and bays. I have since bought a second kayak and a trailer for travel. By the way, the first kayak was my gift to myself for my 70th birthday. It's an age-irrelevant sport...