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Among those who have taken to the stage is self-employed life coach Cary Bayer, 52. He performs in the guise of the 4,000-year-old Wise Guy Swami, who offers the audience proverbs and jokes in an Indian accent ("Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach him to fish, give him a lifetime of body odor"). Bayer, who wrote sketch comedy years ago and studied meditation with an Indian guru, found in his late 40s that he could crack up people at parties with his swami witticisms. He took a chance on open-mike...
...Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers after serving on the Fed's board of governors for three years, believes in a predictable approach to fighting inflation. Greenspan, in contrast, is a connoisseur of esoteric statistics and counts on the freedom to weigh them however he deems wise at the moment...
...Pyongyang looks impervious to any threat. At a flower exhibition consisting exclusively of a red begonia named after the Dear Leader (the Kimjongilia) and a purple orchid named after his father (the Kimilsungia), North Korean visitors gush about the joy of living in a workers' paradise. "Thanks to the wise guidance of the great leader, life has improved so much," a soldier assures us. That may be true for members of the privileged ? lite, of whom we catch glimpses as they are ferried around town in Mercedeses with tinted windows. But how long will everyone else be willing...
...parody amply demonstrates, any assertion that women in the Islamic world do enjoy fewer rights than their Western counterparts is met with instantaneous, shrill outrage. There is no debate, no consideration of reality.Instead of taking out their ill-reasoned rage on The Salient, campus Muslims would be wise to focus their attentions on those places from whence their faith came, those places where what is called “moderate Islam” is today besieged.Travis R. Kavulla ’06, a Crimson editorial editor and editor of The Salient, is a history concentrator affiliated with Mather House...
...that year Isaacson became Time Inc.'s editor of new media, a position he held until assuming his present post a year ago. Along the way he also found time to write Kissinger, the definitive study of the former Secretary of State, and, before that, to co-write The Wise Men, a study of the foreign policy establishment that emerged after World War II. He continues to work on a biography of Ben Franklin, whom he calls "the world's first interactive journalist...