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	Bernard-Henri Lévy: Mosul Is Liberated—But Not Yet Free There are joyous liberations. Of Paris in 1944, for example—a liberation insurrectionary and exultant. And then there are leaden liberations: Warsaw’s in 1944; Berlin’s in 1945; and, more recently, Sarajevo’s. The liberation of Mosul obviously falls into the second category. Learn more
	Leaders Are Made Not Born: Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina Carly Fiorina is a survivor. Of breast cancer. Of the loss of a child. Of media scrutiny. So even when life has posed professional challenges, she has learned to to rise back up. She was the first first woman to head a Fortune 500 company when she became CEO and president of Hewlett-Packard and she was the first female officer at AT&T. She is a litany of firsts, including the first women to run as a GOP candidate for president. Learn more
	Steve Israel: Most People Would NOT Have Taken That Meeting President Trump said that “most people would’ve taken that meeting” with Natalia Veselnitskaya, described in bombshell emails released by Donald Trump Jr. as a “Russian government attorney” who was offering dirt on Hillary Clinton. While some people might have taken that meeting, there are many who would have refused meetings that were far less consequential than one with someone purportedly acting on behalf of a hostile power trying to influence an election. Learn more
	Introducing MacroPolo—Dynamic New Digital Platform “Decodes China’s Economic Arrival” Anyone with a stake in where the global economy is headed needs to grapple with the complexity of China’s evolution. But elucidating a nuanced and balanced portrait of China’s economy, not platitudes or punditry, is becoming much more difficult. And that is why we have created MacroPolo. Learn more
	Lady Carnarvon: From Jeeves and Wooster to Downton Abbey I hope, like all of us here at Highclere (aka Downton Abbey), that you are rather excited about NBC’s announcement that they are making a “Downton Abbey” film. Michael Edelstein, president at NBC Universal International Studio, said that the movie is in the works although it is a logistical challenge to assemble the cast of 18 or 20 much loved characters into one time frame. Of course the largest and oldest “actor” has always been delighted to collaborate and to my eyes, even in old age, has never looked better. Learn more
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