I did not know that you could cook so well.

Dealing with elite interests requires ingenuity.

The Soviet system was particularly inept at handling information.

Environmentalists opposing the pipeline refer, with equal deftness, to dirty oil.

In the French newspaper Le Monde, a highly intelligent commemorative supplement dubbed the period The Decade of Bin Laden.

Ending this conflict will require political adroitness as well as continued military firmness.

Unlike outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, he surrounds himself with very skillful and experienced diplomats.

By 2000, European senior bureaucrats began to dread the approach of each international meeting as the likely occasion for yet another lecture by the Americans on how Europe needed to become much more like America right now.

Human speech is an ingenious manipulation of our breath within the sound chamber of our mouth and respiratory system.

Their relatively small companies and their efficient decision making processes allow them to remain nimble and to react quickly.

De Gaulle s firmness and rhetoric aided, it must be said, by the fumbling of the rebels established the primacy of the state.

That had not happened, so I asked why so much financial skill and enterprise had not yielded obvious economic dividends.

The November 26, 2008, terrorist attacks on Mumbai were brilliantly planned, timed, and executed.

The situation is not insoluble, but it will require extraordinary skill and perseverance to bring it under control..

But the corollary of that is that, if we all are brothers and sisters and share the same genetic material, all human populations share the same raw human genius, the same intellectual acuity.

That is not only because she is a poor public speaker, but also because she herself does not seem to know how to resolve the contradictions between national solutions and European constraints.

Obama can build on this in reconstructing the international financial system, but it will require great tact and foresight on both sides.

Chávez is a master at manipulating the media after the failed coup against him in 2002, he brandished a crucifix to pardon his adversaries and be pardoned by them.

In 2007, many people wrote off his campaign, but he had the skills to resurrect it and capture the Republican nomination.

His novel Autumn of the Patriarch captures perfectly the moral squalor, political paralysis, and savage ennui that enshrouds a society awaiting the death of a long term dictator.

There is one other thing that the public should know about economists It is cleverness, not wisdom, that advances academic economists careers.

Securing popular legitimacy requires equal dexterity, which has played an important role in preventing North African leaders and family members from openly admitting their preparations for dynastic successions.

He was a master at converting the complicated into the simple and, rather than being paralyzed by complexity, he found new ways to deconstruct and overcome it.

Those advocating extremism in the name of religion are active, well resourced, and whatever the reactionary nature of their thinking brilliant at using modern communication and technology.

Two key Indonesian leaders, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice President Jusuf Kalla, showed remarkable political skill and courage in working out the peace deal for Aceh.

This economic prowess, together with the government s zero problem foreign policy, have helped make Turkey a leading regional power.

To be cleverer than the pack (and of course making money by his cleverness) seems to have been Tourre s driving passion.

To find the genes that can influence aging, researchers have begun to change individual genes in specific animal species, hoping to copy some of what evolution has done so well.

The Monitoring Team continues to regard the travel ban as an important sanctions measure against Al Qaida and the Taliban, but notes the ingenuity shown by terrorists who attempt to cross national borders undetected.

Leading the world in technological prowess while leading it from behind in terms of combat forces on the ground, if not in the air, America s shift of emphasis is impossible to ignore.

After all, breaching the ethical and legal barrier to permanent genetic modification could make it more difficult to block its application for treating non lethal conditions, or even for enhancing qualities like cognitive ability or athletic prowess.

There have been many recent studies of the subjective well being of adults around the world. But I know of no comparable research in which children were asked directly about their sense of well being a very smart question indeed.

But are we to assume that the same brilliance and creativity and adaptability that got us up to the top of that energy mountain in the first place is somehow mysteriously going to evaporate when we have to design a creative way back down the other side?

Chávez is a master at manipulating the media after the failed coup against him in 2002, he brandished a crucifix to pardon his adversaries and be pardoned by them.

The plan s central conceit is that government ingenuity can disentangle the trillion dollar sub prime mortgage loan market, even though Wall Street s own rocket scientists have utterly failed to do so.

Yet Twitter has an almost religious following among tech savvy Chinese, whose determination to use the service outstrips authorities efforts to block access to it.

It demands not only a coherent conception of how the world works and the place of US national interests within the international order, but also extraordinary political skill, stamina, timing, and, above all, courage.

LONDON Ten years after 9 11, the instant history is being written. In the French newspaper Le Monde, a highly intelligent commemorative supplement dubbed the period The Decade of Bin Laden.

But when the IMF reemerged after 2008 as a central global institution, with DSK appearing to reorient it with substantial political and economic skill, he started to look again like a threat to Sarkozy s re election bid.

Personification and the imputing of intentional purpose is such a brilliantly successful way to model humans, it's hardly surprising the same modeling software often seizes control when we're trying to think about entities for which it's not appropriate, like Basil Fawlty with his car or like millions of deluded people with the universe as a whole.

These diagrams that show that nuclear is somehow putting out a lot of greenhouse gases a lot of those studies include, Well of course war will be inevitable and therefore we'll have cities burning and stuff like that, which is kind of finessing it a little bit, I think.

Rudd s recommendations are undoubtedly ambitious. But, given his credentials he is a formidable Chinese linguist and creative policy thinker, with long and close personal relationships with key figures in both the US and China his argument must be taken seriously.

Dealing with elite interests requires ingenuity. Lucrative business opportunities can be allocated to soothe the successor s political adversaries, while renegades can be targeted to discourage others for example, by being stripped of property or dismissed from positions of influence.

But on other issues, Ban has failed to live up to the critically important precedent set by his predecessor as Secretary General, Kofi Annan, who transformed the position to promote human rights and assumed the role of the world's conscience when necessary.

His latest product, the cleverly named Mailstrom, seems almost retro in this age of social messaging it helps you manage your email. But, unlike some new tools that guess usually inaccurately whose mail is important to me, Mailstrom does an excellent job not only of categorizing my mail, but also of helping me to get rid of it by applying my own intelligence and willpower.