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...single biggest challenge most nominees face - giving an electrifying acceptance speech - is not one of Obama's worries. He has had ample time to write his remarks, and there is not a soul on his staff, among his friends or in the press corps who doubts that the convention's final act - Obama's address to 70,000 people in a football stadium - will be anything but a smash. That should leave plenty of time for Team Obama to worry about everything else...
...course, not every decision requires you to write a dissertation about its options. Making a gut decision is a perfectly respectable way to, say, choose your lunch. There are other decisions, however, that feel like gut decisions - ones we make quickly and without much apparent conscious thought - that may involve more higher-order thinking, or experience, than we realize. Newell offers the example of a doctor he knows, who insists he can make patients' diagnoses based on gut decisions. "But that doctor has 20 to 30 years of experience, and has in the past employed deliberate decision-making. So maybe...
...will. Ehmke thinks there's a lesson there. "What worries me most is when politicians talk about their sense of destiny. I don't think there's some great Book of Life that foretells all things, and people--especially politicians--who think there is one tend to want to write that book themselves...
When certified clairvoyants operate on the premise that, whatever they may foresee, anything can still happen, the rest of us in the prediction business might try to find a little humility. The injunction not to try to write the end of the story applies to us as well; this fateful passage can't be polled, can't be foretold. We'll just have to wait, until the answers come...
MOVIES Death Race Written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson; rated R; out now Cars, cons, guns and girls: that's how to write finis to an action-movie summer. In this more violent, less anarchic remake of the 1975 Death Race 2000, Jason Statham is the star driver for evil warden Joan Allen. We like the industrial-brutalist look of the film and its flair for gaudy car-nage. But in one way, this is like Hamlet 2: the original was better...