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Carrots And Sticks
Given the way events are unfolding in Israel, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva might want to give serious consideration to holding a “lessons learned” meeting with former President Jimmy Carter and our current envoy to the...
The New Capitalist Tool for the World Economic Forum
It used to be that Forbes advertised itself as being the “capitalist tool.” I am not sure when they decided that this sobriquet had lost its charm; but these days I see that their Web site describes itself as being the “Home Page...
More Disconnected Dots
It has often observed that one reason why metaphors communicate so effectively is that they have extremely strong staying power. That certainly seems to be the case with the application of the connect-the-dots metaphor to missed opportunities to detect...
Berkeley-Style Chutzpah
The first time I presented a Chutzpah of the Week award to the Berkeley City Council (for their rather innovative effort to bring to account John Yoo’s role in Bush Administration atrocities invoked in the name of its “Global War on Terror“),...
Dueling CHUTZPAH
This seems to have become a week when, to paraphrase the words that William Shakespeare assigned to King Lear, chutzpah will come of chutzpah. The events in question are unfolding in the United Kingdom over a matter that has become all too familiar...
Arguing Over a Meaningless Concept
I continue to be surprised that Wikipedia has never been on the receiving end of a Chutzpah of the Week award. I gave one to Jimmy Wales this past April; but that was not for anything specifically having to do with Wikipedia. Rather, it was for...
Incrementing Eric Schmidt’s CHUTZPAH Count
When it comes to Google-based Chutzpah of the Week awards, my recent practice seems to have been to assign them at the corporate level, rather than singling out individuals. Nevertheless, Eric Schmidt is one of the earliest Chutzpah of the Week award...
CHUTZPAH Will Come of CHUTZPAH
In the context of the positive chutzpah that earned Judge Jed Rakoff his Chutzpah of the Week award, this week’s award will go to Bank of America (one of the two targets for Rakoff’s chutzpah) for what can only be described as “retaliatory...
