Reading List

1) Malcolm Gladwell (author of Blink etc.) on why talent assessment is so difficult. He compares assessing quarterbacks to teachers to investment advisors
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/12/15/081215fa_fact_gladwell
2) From Newsweek a brief chronology of attempts to mediate between Israel and Palestine- so close but yet so far and so messed up.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/177713
3) For those wanting a little shot of schadenfreude relative to those Wall Street mucketymucks whose fortunes have declined big-time recently read this Vanity Fair piece on struggling folks in Greenwich and the Hamptons.
http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2009/01/wall_street200901
4) You think immigration is a tough issue in the U.S., try Japan. Their population is in a serious spiral downward, there is really only one way to stop the slide- immigration- but they will likely choose to shrink precipitously instead
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12867328