Moscow, 1953. Stalin calls in Khrushchev. "Niki, I'm dying. Don't have much to leave you. Just three envelopes. Open them, one at a time, when you get into big trouble." A few years later, first ...

Here’s the first White House press release from the Obama administration: At 8:35 AM, the President arrived in the Oval Office and spent 10 minutes alone in the office. He read the note left to him by ...

There’s a familiar parable in politics about envelopes. When an incumbent departs office, he or she leaves three envelopes for the next person, labeled Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3. “Open each one when ...

With a growing list of states teetering on the edge of fiscal calamity, good governance and long-term thinking are frequent casualties. Elected officials and department heads are walking into crises ...

Afghanistan is Obama's problem. Old Soviet joke: Moscow, 1953. Stalin calls in Khrushchev. “Niki, I’m dying. Don’t have much to leave you. Just three envelopes. Open them, one at a time, when you get ...

Moscow, 1953. Stalin calls in Khrushchev. "Niki, I'm dying. Don't have much to leave you. Just three envelopes. Open them, one at a time, when you get into big trouble." A few years later, first ...

Moscow, 1953. Stalin calls in Khrushchev. “Niki, I'm dying. Don't have much to leave you. Just three envelopes. Open them, one at a time, when you get into big trouble.” A few years later, first ...

A few years later, first crisis. Khrushchev opens envelope 1: "Blame everything on me. Uncle Joe." A few years later, a really big crisis. Opens envelope 2: "Blame everything on me. Again. Good luck, ...

Can there be any subject more boring than revenue recognition for software? If you listen to the conference calls of the public EDA companies, you’ll either hear them discuss or get asked about how ...