Michael B. Duff

Rather, al Qaeda's top leadership is believed to be living in relative comfort, protected by locals and some members of the Pakistani intelligence services, the official said.

“Japan’s problem, however, is not inadequate aggregate demand but a structure of production that does not meet consumers’ particular demands. Producing things that nobody wants and propping up malinvestments cannot possibly help any economy. This policy is equivalent to the old Keynesian depression nostrum of paying people to dig holes and fill them. Neither policy will revive the economy because neither forces businesses to realign their structures of production to match consumer demands.”

"There's no such thing as a water landing. It's called crashing into the ocean." "Pilots find it perplexing that so many people are afraid of turbulence. It's all but impossible for turbulence to cause a crash. We avoid turbulence not because we're afraid the wing is going to fall off but because it's annoying."

It’s just like old times! “I forgot how funny it is how you hide alcohol around the house like someone with a serious problem,” Betty says, batting her lifeless eyes.

Sally recoils, horrified. Don violently jerks his head around to find a waitress. It's like a grenade rolled out onto the table. And then sweet, calm Megan says, “It’s just a milkshake,” defusing the crisis. It’s a strange and brilliant little vignette — the kind of thing that’s almost impossible to describe when you try to explain how much you love Mad Men. And it clarifies that Don is falling in love with Megan, in large part, because she’s not Betty, exploding into rage, or Faye, nervous and freaked out around the kids.

It runs iOS 4. But go ahead and pay full price for the Manhunter app. The free version is…buggy.

Instead, as detailed in this weekend's big New York Times Magazine profile of Obama, you have a braintrust (and arguably a broad swath of the Democratic Party) utterly convinced of its own moral, scientific, and historical certainty, plagued only by doubts about its salesmanship.