Daniel Lubetzky

Check out this new ad from Apple for their new iPod nano with video.  How is it that the Apple team ALWAYS gets ahead of all trends and pop culture and sets the tone for advertising coolness and standards? Everything in this ad is so perfect – colors, steps, shots, all.

The song on the ad is Bourgeois Shangri-La from Miss Li.

This earlier ad from Apple – with the song Bruises by Chairlift – is also awesome.

Interesting IPF discussion with Gen. Shaul Mofaz about his new peace proposal…

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Harvard has a pretty neat site – www.implicit.Harvard.edu – that offers people the opportunity to take tests that may surprise us with insights into subconscious biases we all have…

Even though some see David Brooks as the token “conservative” columnist for the New York Times, I have always thought he is more of an independent – a rare thought leader who can fairly analyze and criticize protagonists, issues and institutions from right to left, without dogma or ideology but more with thoughtful thinking, depending on the issue.

In this article, he points out that independents don’t tend to have a “home” or platform to advocate for them:

“Liberals and conservatives each have their own intellectual food chains. They have their own think tanks to provide arguments, politicians and pundits to amplify them, and news media outlets to deliver streams of prejudice-affirming stories. Independents, who are the largest group in the electorate, don’t have any of this. They don’t have institutional affiliations. They don’t look to certain activist lobbies for guidance. There aren’t many commentators who come from an independent perspective.”

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Paparazzi snapped Kelly snacking on a KIND bar and toting a KIND Healthy Snacks grocery bag! She was featured in USMagazine.com and X17online.com.

Last week, Sen. Richard Lugar met with Jason Alexander and OneVoice youth leaders. Photos were featured on Roll Call website and on Reuters.

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As this article illustrates, looks like OneVoice could be a positive and missing ingredient in Lebanese soil.

Industry spin nothwithstanding, the prevalence and consequences of BPA in our food are alarming, as noted in this article by Nick Kristof.

“Strategy is what you don’t do.”

- Michael Porter, as quoted by Drew Gilpin Faust (Harvard’s President)
in NYT art.

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Dave Halperin wrote an excellent column reacting to Tom Friedman’s frustration with the failed peace process and his resulting recommendation to give up trying.

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