Pessimists counter that, though Mr Mboweni is clever, he lacks any relevant experience.
What remains unclear is not whether Mr Obama is clever or tough.
Mr Haradinaj is clever and tough enough to have survived both war against the Serbs and the infighting endemic to Kosovo's violent politics.
Here, clever Mr Primakov is bent on recovering Russia's lost glories.
Mr Balls is clever, tough and ambitious, but his thuggish ways, in particular his brutal vendettas against colleagues on behalf of Mr Brown, have left him with an uncomfortably large number of enemies.
Enlisting the support of Mr McCain is a clever attempt to turn the tide, on several levels.
Mr Kaiser has been clever as well as lucky in being able to publicise the Royal Opera House's more positive efforts.
Here Mr Ferris achieves a clever balance: Tim behaves strangely, but isn't that natural for anyone who loses the life he understood?
Mr Cook's clever recipe has avoided both of these possibilities.
Mr Granger devised a clever solution to this, called co-integration.
His advisers insist that Mr Obama is too clever to usher in a new age of over-regulation, that he will stop such nonsense getting out of Congress, that he is a political chameleon who would move to the centre in Washington.
Mr Amato is a clever man who surprised people with his toughness and agility when once before he stepped into the breach as a stopgap prime minister, in 1992, just as the corruption scandals that brought down the old establishment were getting going.
And Mr Djukanovic is a phenomenally clever politician, with an unerring instinct for survival.
Mr. Magill is especially clever about tracing his subject through the arts.
The clever thing about Mr Rutan's aircraft is that it can tumble back into the atmosphere and glide down to land without any fancy computerised guidance.
She's given some intrinsic interest by Mr. Nichols's clever dialogue, and a plotline that hints that there were even more than three in James and Eleanor's marriage.
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The return is a clever move by Mr. Pinault, who recently won the honor of seeing Christie's become the only foreign auction house allowed to set up a wholly owned business in China.
Supposedly part of a clever campaign by Mr Mandelson to rehabilitate himself, it documents the vain and vindictive emotions that have long made the relations between Mr Blair, Gordon Brown, the chancellor, and Mr Mandelson into a vicious triangle.
The clever wheeze that Mr Hunt had negotiated with James Murdoch of News Corporation was that News Corporation would spin off 61% of Sky News into a new independent company, which would have a new board of its own and would be funded by News Corporation for a decade.
Mr Jospin has already lost a clever finance minister, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, to allegations of corruption.
Other signs suggest that Mr Putin is at least a clever politician.
The trouble is, as well as being clever and provocative, Mr Gray is often confused, always given to hyperbole and is occasionally plain crass.
Mr Mack can be charming and clever, and is willing to trawl for clients: all this is much appreciated in a firm short of morale.
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