Catherine Mayer interviewed me for about 2 hours for this piece.  While I can hardly claim to know "who is David Cameron", I think that Catherine captured some really valuable things about his personality that were not in the public domain before.  For example, she writes:

"Yet despite such constant self-exposure, an easy affability that reads as openness and his willingness to perform without scripts or teleprompts, Cameron remains an enigma. Part of what makes him hard to categorize is that he's above all a pragmatist, priding himself on reasonableness rather than ideological fervor."

While I never became friends with him, I respected and admired his intellect and abilities at the time and now.  As Catherine writes:

"He came to Oxford equipped with a much more complete road map of what he wanted to do," says Guy Spier, who also attended Sinclair's tutorials and now runs an investment firm in New York. He remembers Cameron as an outstanding student: "We were doing our best to grasp basic economic concepts. David — there was nobody else who came even close. He would be integrating them with the way the British political system is put together. He could have lectured me on it, and I would have sat there and taken notes and learned how British politics was put together."

The mainstream media - those notorious lovers of nuance - just can’t
pull it off. Their outrage at the very existence of Sarah Palin is
palpable. “How dare she even be on the ticket,” they cry. “She’s never
been on ‘Meet the Press!’ ”

The harder the media work to elect Obama, the lower his poll numbers go....

From defenders to defamers | Jerusalem Post

The Media Line

Written by Rachelle Kliger
Published Thursday, December 06, 2007

VDH's Private Papers::Iraq's Savage Ironies

http://www.eonyc.org/index.php?section=expertscorner&expid=53

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119430972525083285.html

EO-NY MAKES THE WALL STREET JOURNAL...
by: Gwendolyn Bounds

The Mystique of Forum
Entrepreneurial 'Therapy': Deals, Divorce, Downsizing

Once a month, eight New York area entrepreneurs cancel all appointments, power down BlackBerrys and cellphones and gather in a cone of silence. For three hours, they unload the triumphs, and more often, stresses, not shared with spouses, friends or boards: a marriage on the rocks, the pain of firing a long-term employee, depression that's usurped their passion for work.

Protocols are strict. There are no excuses for latecomers -- 10 minutes stuck in traffic costs $100 toward the group's dinner -- and the price of regular absenteeism is their membership. No one gives advice; only similar experiences may be shared. Cross this line and you'll be cut off midsentence. In return, there are seven people you can trust with your deepest, and occasionally, darkest secrets.

This is Forum -- a type of professional group therapy. Members of this particular collective belong to the Entrepreneurs' Organization, a 6,600-member international community of people who own and run companies. While forums are practiced by other business groups, they've flourished among the entrepreneurial set: 81% of EO members, whose average age is 39, belong to a Forum and there are 650 EO Forums world-wide.

Members say there is innate understanding between them that is hard to achieve in traditional therapy, which some also seek. Because members are so identified with their companies, business and personal issues often are intricately intertwined. Hearing experiences of people coping with similar anxieties is what they seek from Forum.

"These people feel the pressures of having other people's lives, and those people's livelihoods, on their shoulders whereas everyone else can just go home after work," says Verne Harnish, who founded EO 20 years ago. "That's unique."

To get a window into this world, I sat in on a New York Forum's October session. Every member had to approve my presence. In exchange for their candor, I agreed to not attribute certain sensitive matters to specific individuals. Here's what unfolded:

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