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...last appearance at Davos as a head of government, "is in a kind of perpetual global conversation." It's the easiest thing imaginable to make fun of the sometimes self-important men and women with their self-important ways who trot to Switzerland each January. But the truth of the matter remains: despite all its challengers, you never hear more of that global conversation in one place, and one short spell of time, than you do in Davos...
...always, lower taxes. "You have to cut taxes whenever you can," Jeb Bush proposed, "or government will grow faster than people's ability to pay for it." Huh? Bush's assumption was Ronald Reagan's: that "government" is part of the problem, not part of the solution. In truth, it is neither: it is the concrete expression of our collective will. And if you want to govern as a responsible conservative, you have to pay for it--especially when you're fighting a global...
...relation to the human mind may be scientifically sound but philosophically defective [Jan. 29]. Scientists like to break a rose, say, down to its atomic and subatomic particles. Likewise, they view consciousness as merely impulses within the brain. While this is sound science, it dismisses other routes to truth and meaning, such as philosophy and theology. The whole is greater than--or at least different from--the sum of its parts...
...huge step toward figuring out the truth about Stonehenge and the people who erected it. So far, researchers have excavated only the clay floors and hearths from six of the houses and two nearby structures that, fringed with timber palisades, may have been chiefs' homes or shrines. The six houses are strewn with animal bones and broken pottery--so many signs of feasting and ceremony that archaeologists wonder whether the site was used for funerary practices before remains were deposited at Stonehenge. Says Mike Pitts, editor of British Archaeology: "For the very first time, it's creating a social world...
July 1, 2008, is when I go full time with the foundation and part-time with Microsoft. It's a pretty dramatic change--I won't be in the daily flow. The truth is, I don't know how it will feel...