But compromise will only come if Americans insist on intelligent, reasonable behavior on the part of our elected officials behavior that has been sadly missing largely because so much of the American public has given up on the time honored benefits of meeting in the middle.

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All human beings understand respectful behavior, intelligent questions, and genuine interest.

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In the same way that evolution by natural selection can produce purposeful designs without an intelligent designer to prefigure the purpose, so animals can show behavior that evolved to be purposeful but is not psychologically motivated.

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Last October James bought a company called Corda, which makes software that turns corporate data into intelligent graphics, a business that could become a threat if Omniture technology moves into analyzing corporate behavior.

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