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shows a clear-eyed understanding of what it takes to be successful in business
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Dearborn’s biography is a marvel: admiring of the fiction and its startling imagination, but clear-eyed about how McCullers’s behavior hurt her work, herself, and those who loved her.
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The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
On Iran, the Next Administration Must Break With the Past
By putting diplomacy in the lead, the United States can address its discord with Iran and calibrate a smart and clear-eyed policy for the Middle East.
—Michael Singh, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
Jackson is too clear-eyed about the precarious state of theater and the even more perilous state of the world to rest on his laurels.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
Here is a clear-eyed survey of what ails ocean life, shaped by Scales’s own experience and a bracing look at what’s being done.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2024
Wait is an empathetic and clear-eyed exploration of the everyday injustices that slowly erode friendships, families, and lives in America.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 4 June 2024
The movie takes an appropriately cynical view of narcissistic actors and remains clear-eyed about the cold-hearted business behind all that movie magic.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
The owner of the Fukushima plant, the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), has only made the situation worse by presenting the Japanese and global public with obfuscations instead of a clear-eyed accounting.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Oct. 2011
When a divisive defendant like Trump is facing jail time in the middle of a heated election season, a clear-eyed assessment was always going to be tricky.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 8 May 2024
The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
On Iran, the Next Administration Must Break With the Past
By putting diplomacy in the lead, the United States can address its discord with Iran and calibrate a smart and clear-eyed policy for the Middle East.
—Michael Singh, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
Jackson is too clear-eyed about the precarious state of theater and the even more perilous state of the world to rest on his laurels.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
Here is a clear-eyed survey of what ails ocean life, shaped by Scales’s own experience and a bracing look at what’s being done.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2024
Wait is an empathetic and clear-eyed exploration of the everyday injustices that slowly erode friendships, families, and lives in America.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 4 June 2024
The movie takes an appropriately cynical view of narcissistic actors and remains clear-eyed about the cold-hearted business behind all that movie magic.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
The owner of the Fukushima plant, the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), has only made the situation worse by presenting the Japanese and global public with obfuscations instead of a clear-eyed accounting.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Oct. 2011
When a divisive defendant like Trump is facing jail time in the middle of a heated election season, a clear-eyed assessment was always going to be tricky.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 8 May 2024
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