Europe s finance ministers have played a clever game with the ECB.

Iran also doesn t play well with others.

Indeed, Bavaria became adept at using European Community resources to bolster its own political system.

The concept of the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) may have been an astute branding tool.

The decision to establish the EU was an ingenious response to the biggest challenge of the day war and conflict.

So after reading this email, I went to the link of the doodles and really I found very nice doodles made by the small Egyptians, who are very genius, and I have liked two doodle.

Many an econometrician s career has been built on finding a clever way to establish the direction of causality.

But they tend to be ingenious at developing glamorous new areas from little towns within an hour s commute from major cities.

Other creatures, like the crows, aren't very good at doing anything in particular, but they're extremely good at learning about laws of different environments.

It is an absurd charge, but absurd charges can curry public support if presented in a slick, well funded format.

Violinist Natalie MacMaster and TED Musical Director Thomas Dolby play Dolby s original song Blue Is a River in this ethereal duet with a little dancing.

Rather than securing investment for productive sectors of the economy, the financial industry has become adept at securing investment in itself.

Sophisticated computer programs are becoming quite good at grading middle school essays, if not quite up to the standards of top teachers.

It's very ingenious, as all Freudian arguments are but didn't make much sense because I have seen the same delusion, a patient having the same delusion, about his pet poodle.

To boot, we have been told that government is so clever that it might even make money on the whole affair.

But Russia is simply not as good at copying practical things like laws and economic models as it is at transforming cultural impulses into works of art with a Russian soul.

To boot, we are told that government is so clever that it might even make money on the whole affair.

Banks responded with ingenious ways of repackaging and selling that debt, but the fundamental problem lay in the channeling of financial flows in an unproductive direction, owing to public pressure.

Some argue that government is not good at picking winners. Some argue that it makes no difference whether a country produces potato chips or computer chips.

As a political tactician, she has also been innovative, organizing her campaign on the Internet with a plan to write her program from the responses of users.

Turkey has been deft in seizing these new opportunities, with exports increasingly headed south and east to the emerging economies, rather than west to high income markets.

A wide range of jobs that we now think of as skilled, secure, and irreducibly human may be the next casualties of technological change.

Designer Yves Behar digs up his creative roots to discuss some of the iconic objects he's created . Then he turns to the witty, surprising, elegant objects he's working on now including the 100 laptop.

US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's division of Europe into new and old was, above all, a clever ploy that helped the Bush Administration get its way by using the old strategy of divide and rule.

Neither Yellen nor Flug was held back by a lack of academic credentials both are accomplished scholars or by the catch all charge of having limited experience.

As for power transition, much attention nowadays is lavished on a supposed American decline, often with facile historical analogies to Britain and Rome.

Both the international community and persons living in the subregion were often unaware of existing conflicts as Governments had been adept at using international diplomacy to deflect attention from those situations. He referred to several recommendations adopted at the meeting which had been addressed to Governments.

They are typically very astute at risk management, unlike many of the banks that dramatically increased their leverage and thus their risks during the last 20 years.

And a lot of my friends train really neat animals, grizzly bears if you've ever seen a grizzly bear on the telly or in film, then it's a friend of mine who's trained it killer whales. I love it because it wires you up.

For example, Chinese local governments became highly adept at attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) by providing attractive infrastructure and supporting services that facilitate the expansion of global production chains.

A future more beautiful? Architect Thomas Heatherwick shows five recent projects featuring ingenious bio inspired designs. Some are remakes of the ordinary a bus, a bridge, a power station ... And one is an extraordinary pavilion, the Seed Cathedral, a celebration of growth and light.

Is there something you've always meant to do, wanted to do, but just ... haven't? Matt Cutts suggests Try it for 30 days. This short, lighthearted talk offers a neat way to think about setting and achieving goals.

She is an accomplished professional, having been Chair of one of the world s largest law firms and ranked by Forbes in 2008 as the 14th most powerful woman in the world.

In doing so, they typically inflame passions against religious and ethnic minorities. For regimes that represent economic elites (and are often corrupt to the core), it is a ploy that pays off handsomely at the polls.

The French remain studiously aloof, even a little disdainful, as befits a nation that rejects feminism as an anti feminine American creation and manages to produce a leader who is simultaneously as accomplished and as elegant as Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund.

Using slick PowerPoint presentations with titles like Default in Today s Advanced Economies Unnecessary, Undesirable, and Unlikely, the Fund tried to convince investors that eurozone debt was solid as a rock.

Among them, the most encouraging is the seventh round of inter Sudanese peace talks on the situation in Darfur that started in Abuja in November under the proficient mediation of the African Union.

By the time we enter this work world and we're breadwinners, we enter a world that is just cluttered with spam, fake digital friends, partisan media, ingenious identity thieves, world class Ponzi schemers, a deception epidemic in short, what one author calls a post truth society.

To avoid repetition of the costly mistakes made in Iraq, Libya will require adroit leadership that can elaborate a compelling new national vision with which to unify competing authorities, rein in undisciplined militias, and minimize the country s strategic vulnerability.