If you do not get carried away with your own genius when your stocks go up, or hang your head in despair when they do not, then you can make use of the long-term strategies like family wealth planning and tax management that are our stock in trade.

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"When you're dealing with someone who really is a genius, it's not like you can say, 'Let's go find ourselves another genius, ' " says Patrick Sweeney, executive vice president at Caliper, an organizational consulting firm.

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But he adds that the prize can also be seen as "an exhortation not to let this huge project of genius which is the European Union go to the dogs simply because of national selfishness and short-sightedness".

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Additionally, state-of-the-art iPod features such as custom playlists and Genius, which instantly creates a playlist of songs that go well together from a user's own library, is immediately made available to BMW and MINI drivers through the vehicle's main display. iPod Out requires iOS 4 with iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPod touch (second and third generation).

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How did we go from marveling at the life of a billionaire genius to setting up a retirement account?

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Sure, flirting experts will tell you it's possible to go from having no flirting skills whatsoever to becoming a flirting genius.

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Look, the genius of America is the free enterprise system and freedom, and the fact that people can go out there and start a business, work on an idea, make their own decisions.

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