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Real Time - temperamentally
News - temperamentally
The unthinking brilliance of Tim Duncan
24 May 2012, 3:16 pm
Harry How/NBAE/Getty Images Blake Griffin on Tim Duncan: "The way he plays is so methodical, but at the same time he doesn't overthink the game." Over the past quarter-century, the NBA has seen the Black Mamba, Larry Legend, His Airness, The Answer, The Truth, The Mailman, King James, Vinsanity, Flash and Magic. But the Big Fundamental? If ever a nickname was assigned with a firm backhand, this ...
Why I never got to warp the minds of my fellow graduates
24 May 2012, 3:58 am
This is not a graduation speech. It’s not even an anti-graduation speech. You know, the kind of commencement address employed by comedians who have been hired as a foil for last year’s speaker: Maya Angelou. Or, say, the scientist who invented Splenda. If this was that speech, I would have already broken into bullet-pointed advice ranging from “be kind to your parents” to “don’t wash your hair ...
The Dictator: are we right to laugh?
17 May 2012, 6:04 pm
Sacha Baron Cohen's film joins Team America and The Producers in depicting despots as one-dimensional buffoons. But why are we obsessed with satirising tyrants – and is it right to find them funny? Ever since His Excellency Admiral General Shabazz Aladeen, self-styled beloved oppressor and chief ophthalmologist of the People's Republic of Wadiya, inadvertently spilled Kim Jong-il's ashes over ...
Greece to hold new election, jolts euro markets
15 May 2012, 4:01 pm
ATHENS/BERLIN (Reuters) - Attempts to form a government in Greece collapsed on Tuesday, jolting financial markets at the prospect that leftists opposed to the terms of an EU bailout could sweep to victory in a June election and tip the euro zone deeper into crisis. The turmoil in Athens sent shock waves around other troubled members of the 17-nation European single currency area. The euro ...
Hollande sets out growth agenda for Europe
15 May 2012, 12:38 pm
PARIS/BERLIN (Reuters) - New French President Francois Hollande called for a European pact for growth to balance out German-driven austerity measures in his inaugural address on Tuesday, hours before taking his challenge to Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin. Sworn in with all the pomp of the French Republic, Hollande won support from Germany's opposition Social Democrats (SPD), who vowed to use ...
Bomb-sniffing dogs enlisted to stem Florida python invasion
30 April 2012, 3:58 pm
ORLANDO (Reuters) - Some bomb-sniffing dogs trained to help fight terrorism are turning their olfactory attention toward a different scourge: Burmese pythons in Florida's Everglades National Park. The dogs are members of "EcoDogs," a three-year-old collaboration at Alabama's Auburn University between the science departments and the school's Canine Detection Research Institute, which trains dogs ...
World - temperamentally
Personality and polarisation: The big sort - Economist.com
20 May 2012, 6:55 pm
I agree. In a recent post applying Mr Haidt's theory to the question of re-unionisation, I argued that in the middle of the 20th century the most temperamentally conservative people in America, pro-Jim Crow Southern whites, were a huge and indispensable ...
Gay prosecutor denied judgeship in Va. - WTVR-TV
15 May 2012, 1:17 pm
“We have to accept nominees to the bench who by their past behavior and actions in life are temperamentally suited to sit in judgement of their fellow citizens,” said Marshall. The vote from state lawmakers was reached at 1:13 a.m. on ...
An Idea Whose Time Has Come - VANITYFAIR
10 May 2012, 12:47 pm
Because “too cute” is the paramount thing that this president has always assured us that he is temperamentally, intellectually, and politically contemptuous of being. Biden’s simple, canine candor—like a dog shaking water off his fur, the better to ...
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