Listen closely Marvin Minsky's arch, eclectic, charmingly offhand talk on health, overpopulation and the human mind is packed with subtlety wit, wisdom and just an ounce of wily, is he joking? advice.

Nor, due to a lack of organized opposition, will public anger at Musharraf s pro US policy destabilize his regime. Indeed, the wily general president does not merely survive crisis after crisis, but has thrived in power.