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TIME: Why did you decide to write this book? Cross: It was simply picking up the phone and saying yes to whoever's idea it was. Somebody from the publishing company called my literary agent, which I didn't know existed at the time. Still haven't met him. Although he's welcome to 15% of whatever I earn...
...resources and accelerated global warming. These nations must take active steps toward reducing the effects of their commendable growth within the next 20 years or so. What's the point in getting rich if there is no world left to sustain your life, let alone enjoying your new gains? Yes, China can indeed help save the world: by not walking the same mistaken path that the supposed First World nations have been blindly stumbling along ever since the industrial revolution. Tawit Chitsomboon, Nakornratchasima, Thailand...
...lamely repurposed Bush jokes. ("Barack Obama is so dumb, when he was governor of Texas, someone asked him what the capital of Texas is, and he said, 'Capital T.' ") Still, the edge that crept into Letterman's comedy during the Bush years has, if anything, only gotten sharper. (Yes, he was forced to apologize for a joke about Palin's daughter, but his obvious distaste for the former Alaska governor is evident in the wisecracks that have continued ever since.) In fact, Letterman's monologues have doubled in length - from eight jokes a night to 16 or more...
...weeks after president Obama took office, his Administration sought to manage expectations on Afghanistan. Yes, it was the right war, a war of necessity--but winning didn't require turning the country into a "Jeffersonian democracy" (Obama's phrase) or a "Central Asian Valhalla" (as Defense Secretary Robert Gates put it). The implication was that President Bush had become too distracted by secondary, nation-building goals, such as ensuring that Afghan girls went to school. Obama would focus on the main task: defeating al-Qaeda and the Taliban...
Blankfein is convinced that Goldman Sachs is good for its clients, for the world's capital markets - and yes, for America as well. "I would like for us to be thought of as always doing the right thing and for people at the firm to be confident that they are doing the right thing," he says. Now if only he could get the public to see things this...