I soon realized that these clever ideas had already been developed by the theory of knowledge and the philosophy of science.

Christine Lagarde, a competent and well regarded technocrat, will have her hands full with three important challenges.

That is why he barged his way past Hillary Clinton, the consummate operator of the party machine.

He continued to display his prowess by composing the Navagraha Kritis in praise of the nine planets.

His great talent, consummate negotiating skill and competence contributed decisively to the success of the work of the fifty ninth session.

Gorbachev s humanitarian tinkering contributed greatly to the timing.

One of Obama s great achievements is that he made it into a serious topic through the brilliance and subtlety of his rhetoric.

No one checks the forms, and the proportions allocated to administration and program expenses are easily massaged with a little creative accounting.

Allow me to commend the Co Chairpersons and thank them for their fine handling of the Meeting and their efforts to ensure the Meeting's success.

The art of politics is about skillful compromises, with no side getting exactly what it considers fair and just.

Clever word games cannot hide the essence of what happened a government that came to power in a fair election was overthrown by the army.

So the central question that Russia confronts is whether even competent economic policy can prevent economic and political collapse.

Notwithstanding Obama s skillful response to the Arab Spring the only strategic surprise that he has faced as president his credibility in the Muslim world has steadily declined.

LONDON When Mark Carney replaces Mervyn King as Governor of the Bank of England in July 2013, the world will be deprived of King s witty public utterances.

The new relationship with Russia needs careful management, and rapid extension of membership to former Soviet republics like Ukraine and Georgia could prove difficult.

But trilateral dialogues, catalyzed by skillful US diplomacy, could also serve as an opportunity to manage the countries strategic relations, which currently are characterized by contradictions and mistrust.

Although the world s central banks and finance ministries have been devising many ingenious and innovative policies to stimulate credit, so far they have not had much success.

As Churchill once wrote about the Mulberry harbors (his ingenious plan to install prefabricated floating piers a day after the Normandy landings), the difficulties will argue for themselves.

No significant Wall Street voices acknowledged his concerns preferring instead to praise the equity markets as a shining example of well functioning technology.

The most important achievement of Kennedy s brief presidency was to manage the 1962 Cuban missile crisis and defuse what was probably the riskiest episode since the dawn of the nuclear age.

A great deal of attention has been paid to the stratagems of John Bolton, the fiercely anti UN diplomat whom President Bush recently appointed US ambassador to the UN, and rightly so.

Many new developments have been set in motion in that entire region by the global economic crisis, and a new player, China (a long term planner), has entered the geopolitical stage.

But there is a study much more useful than Gibbon s analysis of Rome for understanding what happened to France s team Marc Bloch s masterful examination of France s collapse in 1940, A Strange Defeat.

Nonetheless, the support that the military coup received from many Egyptian liberals is difficult to fathom. Clever word games cannot hide the essence of what happened a government that came to power in a fair election was overthrown by the army.

But the truth is that it is sheer dumb luck not statesmanship, good professional management, or anything inherently stable about the world s nuclear weapon systems that has let us survive so long without catastrophe.

CHICAGO Now that the dust has settled over the selection of the International Monetary Fund s managing director, the IMF can return to its core business of managing crises. Christine Lagarde, a competent and well regarded technocrat, will have her hands full with three important challenges.

Barack Obama, at least when he began his campaign, had all the charisma of the holy roller, turning on the crowds with the rhetorical spark of a great evangelist. That is why he barged his way past Hillary Clinton, the consummate operator of the party machine.

But in a context where the EU remains too remote from citizens and where apathy and confusion define the referendum campaign, the No side has cleverly packaged its message of Europe as an existential threat to Irish jobs, investment and sovereignty.

Psychologically, we are naturally impatient, so it is good for us to believe that our wealth is safe and secure, and that we can add to it through skillful acts of investment, because that delusion makes us behave less impatiently.

If one substitutes war for soccer, the comparison that comes to mind is that of the aging French military establishment, behind the Maginot Line in 1940, unable to confront General Heinz Guderian s masterful command of blitzkrieg tank attacks.

These are great ideas, but as I went through these texts I found them to be rather familiar sounding I had the feeling that somehow and somewhere I had already studied them. I soon realized that these clever ideas had already been developed by the theory of knowledge and the philosophy of science.

Kaufman s approach with speeches on the Senate floor as a central feature seemed irrelevant or even quaint to critics even a few weeks ago. No significant Wall Street voices acknowledged his concerns preferring instead to praise the equity markets as a shining example of well functioning technology.