This got me wondering, are our presidents really spending a lot of their time on Twitter and what does it say about those such as Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki who do not have Twitter accounts?

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What does it feel like to be a long time Lance Armstrong fan who realizes Lance was doping and lying for years?

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Now that a once-obscure JPMorgan Chase derivatives trader named Bruno Iksil has become infamous as the London Whale, I suppose it is time to ask whether what he does should be subject to new taxes.

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If our visceral understanding of what a company does and how it does it wanes over time, how can we expect to be great board members?

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But it does appear to be what IS happening at the present time.

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What it does in the course of telling a seminal story of our time is what contemporary films so rarely do, serve as brilliant provocation.

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In the Contarini Chapel the picture hangs under a real window whose light, depending on the time of day, does to the painting exactly what Caravaggio's light does within it.

WSJ: The Calling of St. Matthew | A Dramatic Enlightenment | Masterpiece by Willard Spiegelman

But it does seem to me that someone has a pretty good idea ahead of time what the statistics will say.

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At the same time, the royal family does touch the real world, albeit the part of it inhabited by what remains of the landed upper classes: a life of moors and deer-stalking, of summers under Scottish rain, dogs and horses, the church, the armed forces, the same few boarding schools and the right sort of nightclubs.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot