The author not only details various taxes but incisively analyzes the destructive impact of each.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

But Paul wrote extensively, incisively and all-too-knowledgeably about post-Soviet Russia's crime-ridden, oft-murderous worlds of business and politics.

FORBES: Paul Klebnikov, 1963-2004

Instead of trying to douse extremism, says Raghida Dergham, who reports incisively from New York for a liberal daily, Al Hayat, the Bush administration has seemed intent on inflaming it.

ECONOMIST: Arabs and America

He also, modestly but incisively, contemplates the diverse essence of the cinema itself the free play of spectacular imagination, the humble attention to the near-at-hand, and the surprising ways in which both contribute to the self-image of viewers and participants alike.

NEWYORKER: You All Are Captains

He frames them incisively, ruefully, and nostalgically, as he aims lightheartedly at a darker purpose: connecting love and power, he suggests the virtue of exerting principled authority, whether in business, in politics, or in art and shows the risks that come with the pleasures and responsibilities of doing so.

NEWYORKER: Barcelona