They seem cleverer.

So subtle. Strategy, my dear.

How brilliant.

Some are much more crafty.

It requires proficiency in an extraordinary wide range of skills.

I don't believe it. It's just virtuosity.

Terrorists have been better at capitalizing on models of distributed operation.

I shall propose the toast, without wit, with all my heart.

Effectively, this is the brainwashing process that has begun.

So you take plot 27 A, make it glossy and slick?

I'm the guy that won the cash prize for the most imaginative sales campaign.

For starters, Germans are convinced that they have weathered the crisis extraordinarily well.

What was amazing to me also was they seemed a lot more adept at getting a handle on our language than we were on getting a handle on theirs.

But also, we need smarter aid, and smarter use of aid.

So evolution's trick is to make them beautiful, to have them exert a kind of magnetism to give you the pleasure of simply looking at them.

I may never be as virtuosic as a violinist or as heroic as a cellist

I wouldn't try any cityslicker stuff on this poor old country boy.

Eclectic foxes are better at curbing their ideological enthusiasms.

The nature of US power and the exercise of its influence was always much more clever and subtle than most assume.

And using this very simple machine, my lab and others have done dozens of studies showing just how good babies are at learning about the world.

It seems that Hu Jintao is more skillful than the polished Obama at maximizing his gains at little cost.

Was it strategy sending those gorillas to drag me away from the Justice of the Peace?

So evolution's trick is to make them beautiful, to have them exert a kind of magnetism to give you the pleasure of simply looking at them.

Part of the confusion lies in Putin s skillful political positioning.

And the great innovation of Chicken McNuggets was not nuggifying them, that's kind of an easy concept.

China has shown itself adept at assertively promoting its national interests and playing classical balance of power geopolitics.

First, Europe is better at talking about free trade areas than delivering free trade.

And using this very simple machine, my lab and others have done dozens of studies showing just how good babies are at learning about the world.

But the Iranians are the subtlest negotiators to be found anywhere, and will make certain that their nuclear program outpaces the negotiations.

So we're asking for human artifice to become a living thing, and we want growth, we want free energy from sunlight and we want an open metabolism for chemicals.

Holmes, I understand that the recovery of the original would make it impossible for the thieves to sell any copies however excellent those copies were, but did you have any clue to the identity of the mastermind behind the whole scheme?

New firms must be created, and modern financial markets are better at speculation and exploitation than they are at providing funds for new enterprises, especially small and medium size companies.

They sought to stage an Olympics that made manifest their image of themselves, and Speer Jr., looking back to his father s mastery of the architecture of power, delivered the goods.

In some cases during 2012, politics was a force for good consider Prime Minister Mario Monti s ability to pull Italy back from the brink of financial turmoil.

South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel has ably served as head of the World Bank s oversight committee and would make a brilliant World Bank president.

James Acton for Carnegie Endowment for International Peace suggested a more subtle approach of shifting the focus from denuclearization to nonproliferation.

What will make this work is that, like any good KGB man, Putin is a master of facades.

Noyer s diplomatic skill certainly will be put to the test if he has to navigate the treacherous waters between the Scylla of French protectionism and the Charybdis of the EU s five criteria for bank mergers.

As John Maynard Keynes put it, there is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.

But, having deftly out maneuvered his opponents for three years, Zardari seems to have misread the current political environment, for Pakistan is not the same country in which his wife and father in law wielded power.

In any effort, it is important to rely not only on the desire of all Afghans to end the war, but also on Afghan ingenuity and faith in their nation to move the peace process forward.

While the enemy is skillful at manipulating the media and using the tools of communications to their advantage, we have an advantage as well truth is on our side, and, ultimately, truth wins out.

We must work for better policies, more trade, more aid and smarter use of aid, so that those children can create a brighter future for their own children.

Years are required for each major IPCC report, including the Fourth Assessment Report, which was completed this year.

The Irish government that encouraged reckless bank lending and the creation of a property bubble was, perhaps not surprisingly, no more adept in managing the economy after the crisis that it was before.