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...failure to collect intelligence, [but] a failure to integrate and understand the intelligence that we already had," Obama said on Tuesday after scolding U.S. officials over the case, which he called a "screwup that could have been disastrous." "I will accept that intelligence by its nature is imperfect, but it is increasingly clear that intelligence was not fully analyzed or fully leveraged. That's not acceptable...
...intended to jam American databases and allow more furtive or budding extremists to get lost in the mass of information. But even if there is a high number of errant names on such lists, he acknowledges, they are a necessary evil - for now. Although the U.S. intelligence systems are imperfect and occasionally get swamped, casting as wide a net as possible is still the best hope for identifying the largest number of would-be terrorists - and could-bes as well...
...background and the focus rest on Leo and Sofya. What you carry away from the movie is the reminder that a deathbed is the place where the living stake their possession for the last time and then watch it evaporate in irrelevance. Not a bad end for an imperfect movie...
...golf champ faces after his single-car crash led to a multiwoman pileup of infidelity allegations. If Woods can persuade his wife Elin Nordegren not only to stick by him, but also to say in the presence of a large media outlet or two that she has forgiven her imperfect husband and that everyone else should feel free to do likewise, then resurrecting his image is easier than nine holes of putt-putt...
...other words, he's wrong a lot. But so are conventional economic forecasters, especially at the market turning points that can have the biggest impact on investors' portfolios. This is because, Prechter argues, standard economic models of financial markets depict prices as reflections - imperfect, perhaps, but still reflections - of true value. He believes instead that "waves of social mood are the driving factor" of both market moves and, to a certain extent, economic reality. He calls this approach socionomics, and he's doing what he can - his Georgia operation now includes a socionomics institute - to push it onto academic curriculums...