Word: wising
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...That's the name of the hard-pressed fictional franchise featured in George Clooney's Leatherheads, in which the director stars as an aging, wise-guy running back named Dodge Connolly, who may have lost a few steps on the field but is yards ahead of most people in sensing pro football's glittering future. That potential is personified by Carter Rutherford (John Krasinski) who has it all: he's a war hero, a snake-hipped runner and cute as all get out. He is a version of Red Grange, who came out of Illinois, signed a huge contract with...
...scale and speed of his book's success has shocked him. Within weeks of its original release, the semi-autobiographical tale of a Chinese student being taught the ways of the steppe by a wise old Mongol herder was being devoured by hundreds of thousands of readers - government officials and students, traditionalists and bohemians, workers and business types. Huge Chinese enterprises like Lenovo, Haier and Huawei bought copies for their employees, and the book quickly spawned a host of self-help and management texts that claimed to be imbued with its spirit - works with titles like The Wolf...
...golden age of economic journalism, with wonderful business writers churning out great stuff every day. But they're not the ones covering the candidates. The endless political campaign has produced a permanent class of political journalists (or perhaps it's the other way around). Many are just as wise as the business journalists, but they devote their wisdom to the minutiae of campaign strategy and are mystified to the point of terror about economics...
That's quite an understatement for an already hyper-competitive market with tens of millions of users. Rivals Flickr, Slide, Picasa and Photobucket all offer some of the same features as the new Photoshop Express. Still, Adobe is wise to tap into Web users' growing appetite for simple programs they don't have to buy - unlike Microsoft, which is so far missing out on the free software wave by failing to offer webware similar to Google Docs or Zoho...
Even as Gilani and his new colleagues in power reverse Musharraf's anti-democratic moves, they may find it wise to preserve his stability-seeking measures. Figuring out how much of Musharraf's legacy to undo may be Gilani's biggest challenge as the country's new Prime Minister. With reporting by Ershad Mahmud/Islamabad