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...Trump, Donald • alleged delight of at engagement of daughter of to son of another distasteful real estate tycoon • lawsuit of against author who claimed actual worth of is a fraction of the billions endlessly and nauseatingly boasted about by is thrown out of court • reference to in new book by Kurt Andersen as "a clownish reality-show artifact" is not appreciated...
...Pragmatism Should Often Trump Idealism Compared with the relatively Panglossian vision of George W. Bush, who sought to remake whole parts of the world under the banner of American moral authority, Obama brings a more conservative, cynical view to the question of when nations should act on idealistic impulses. At a press conference on Friday, the President was asked how he resolves the theoretical conflict between respecting state sovereignty and intervening in defense of the universal rights of oppressed people. "The threshold at which international intervention is appropriate I think has to be very high," Obama said. "There...
...time when opinion polls suggest that Obama is more popular than his policies, the President can take a page from F.D.R. The first President to use private polling, Roosevelt understood that his popularity could help propel his political agenda. Personality doesn't trump policy, but it can drive it. F.D.R.'s relentless optimism (the motto that graced his office was LET UNCONQUERABLE GLADNESS DWELL) helped him sell his policies to America...
Wiedeking still has some trump cards up his sleeve, the biggest of which would be to sell some of the VW shares Porsche has amassed to pay down the debt. But people who know the companies well say that something much bigger is at stake here than just paying off debt. "It's just like any family feud, where the arguments drag on and on for no logical reason, and just when you think that you have it sorted out, it flares up again," says Peter Schmidt, who runs a British-based consultancy called Automotive Industry Data. Already, he worries...
...jailed for ripping off Taiwanese minister's TOUPEE. Donald Trump should sue whoever's forcing him to keep...