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Rather than a biographical re-hash - wise, for possibly only Jesus bests Lincoln in the number of published books devoted to a single person - Gopnik offers a meditation on each man's most literary qualities: Lincoln's deceptively simple legalistic language and Darwin's crystalline powers of observation. And what could have been a gimmick (a book timed to twin bicentennials is as close as historical biographies get to a home run) becomes something more, a learned treatise that worships learning. Gone is the overly twee writing of Gopnik's memoir-inflected works (Paris to the Moon, Through the Children...
Health, by definition, is the sine qua non of everything else. If you're dead, serenity is academic. So we convince ourselves that while our medicine is strong and our doctors are wise, our prayers may heal...
...words is about to become very real. As he prepares a budget for next year, Gates must decide the fate of a number of fantastically expensive weapons programs the military services say they need. He can't fund them all--and might be wise to take a knife to them all. In this, Gates has little choice: the military's annual budget has finished growing, and the billions it once imagined it might spend on future weapons have evaporated. So cuts--and big ones--are coming, and Gates will be the man who makes them...
...Before explaining the nuts and bolts of Strata's structure, it may be wise to put down your Blackberry, mute your CNBC program and turn down your iPod. This stuff is very tricky, perhaps far more so than any investment should be. That's part of the problem. (See the worst business deals...
...losses associated with those actions. Imprudent and miscalculating banks would thus be out of the game as a capitalistic consequence of their actions, while the pool of remaining banks (and the executives running those banks) would be of a higher quality, having demonstrated an ability to make prudent and wise decisions in the face of higher-reward—and correspondingly higher-risk—opportunities...