An Economy of Words
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The outgoing editor of The Economist on the Dubai port deal, American
foreign policy and how his magazine has thrived in a Web-based world.
WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Susanna Schrobsdorff
Newsweek
Updated: 8:11 p.m. ET Feb. 24, 2006
Feb. 24, 2006 - "The Incompetent versus the Incoherent" is one of those
rare headlines that doesn't get stale with age. It was the handiwork of
Bill Emmott, the outgoing editor of The Economist in the magazine's
famously backhanded endorsement of John Kerry for president over George
W. Bush in 2004. The editorial lamented the choice between "two deeply
flawed men," skewering the president for "sheer incompetence" in the
rebuilding of Iraq while saying that Kerry "seems to have made up his
mind conclusively about something only once, and that was 30 years
ago."
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