Mitt Romneys inability to connect with people not his corporate success and vast personal fortune could ultimately be what derails his campaign, said business broadcast veteran Neil Cavuto in an exclusive interview.

Weve had lots of wealthy presidents, Cavuto, managing editor for business news at Fox News Channel and Fox Business News, told the Herald. Romneys wealth has hurt him because he hasnt embraced it.

Cavuto, referring to the latest of Romneys Thurston Howell III-like wealth gaffes, said, Romney should have told voters he wants to be in the position to help them get a couple of Cadillacs. He needs to be quicker on his feet. Theres nothing wrong with being wealthy. Theres something wrong with being uncomfortable with people.

As Massachusetts primary voters head to the polls today, Cavuto said, Ask if your former governor is up for the task. Can he make things economically right?

The veteran business journalist, who has been covering the primary as a business story because the economy is such a key issue, said President Obama soon may regret his strategy of attacking Wall Street.

I dont think demonizing Wall Street was a good strategy, Cavuto said. I think you dont damn success and point fingers. You find a better way to do it. Like John F. Kennedy did quietly with the steel industry.

But Obama may benefit from economic recovery, he said.

Theres a distinct likelihood the unemployment rate could be under 8 percent in November, Cavuto said. The trend is the presidents friend.

The news anchor, a cancer survivor who is battling multiple sclerosis, said he doesnt like to complain, either about his illnesses or the challenges of building up the Fox Business News brand.

At first when I left CNBC, it was like I was in the witness protection program, said Cavuto, who joined Fox News nearly 16 years ago. But good things take time. I believe if you build it, they will come. Im not going to lie to you. Its an uphill battle, but I know what it takes to connect to people.

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Liverpool defender Martin Skrtel insists he still has room for improvement despite enjoying arguably his best season at the club.

The Slovakia centre-back has put in numerous commanding performances and has also weighed in with four goals this season, more than doubling his tally from the previous four years. But the 27-year-old believes there is still plenty more to come from him as he looks to build on his recent run of good form.

"For the last few months I have been pleased with my performances," he said. "There is no reason for it. I have just tried to do my best and not put too much pressure on myself. It helps that the team is doing well too. When the team is playing at a high level, it gives everybody confidence to reach their levels.

"Experience has a lot to do with it. As you get older you learn how to deal with success and failure and I feel a lot more confident in my ability to make the right decisions. In the last 18 months a lot has changed and I think everybody agrees that it has changed for the better.

"Nobody is complete. You see players older than me trying to get better and that inspires you. You see people like Bellars (Craig Bellamy); ones who give everything every day.

"He has been very successful for a long time but he still wants to be the best. You have to have that attitude. I am 27 now and I think I can still improve."

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FORTUNE -- The latest installment of Applemania debuts this Wednesday, when Apple is expect to unveil another wonders of consumer gadgetry. The Apple-obsessed world expects an iPad 3. But then that same community was crestfallen not to receive an iPhone 5 in October. (Mere consumers, meanwhile, snapped up 37 million iPhones the following quarter, including the clearly-magical-enough iPhone 4S.) Apple's tease to journalists in anticipation of the March 7 event in San Francisco -- "We have something you really have to see. And touch." -- might just as likely signal a revamped iPod Touch. Or perhaps we'll be able to fondle an Apple TV remote-control device.

Whatever. The fact is that all eyes once again will be focused on the world's most valuable company. Those eyes have watched Apple's (AAPL) every move for years now, of course. Yet what's remarkable is how little the competition catches on, or catches up, to Apple's ways. Yes, Apple is special. And no, not every company can and should be like Apple, at least not in every way. But there are key aspects of the Apple playbook that other companies absolutely should emulate. Here are three:

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Say no more often. Steve Jobs was fond of saying that saying no was harder -- and more important -- than saying yes. Apple said no to making personal digital assistants, in the 90s that is. It said no for years to making a telephone-- until it said yes. Apple refused to focus on selling to businesses. It wouldn't put a USB port on the first iPad. And so on. While not every company can achieve Apple's level of Zen by rejecting seemingly good business opportunities, there isn't a company out there that wouldn't benefit by more rigorously asking itself: "Have we absolutely satisfied ourselves that we have said yes for the right reasons?" How many companies pursue revenue opportunities that any new recruit knows the company is doing to make money rather than delight customers. (An example: Jobs ridiculed the PC industry for years for the margin-boosting "crapware" that comes loaded on a PC. The crap remains.) It takes real courage to say no. But it's not like top executives aren't being compensated for brave action.

Focus your message better. Whatever Apple unveils this week, you can be sure it will be succinctly explained and that the explanation will be summarized in a short, pithy expression. The iPod was a thousand songs in your pocket. The iPhone was the best iPod Apple had made as well as a phone with a Web browser. When Steve Jobs showed the iPad 2 he stressed repeatedly that we were living in a post-PC world. How convenient for the company leading the tablet computer revolution. Other companies muddle their message, in part by allowing multiple spokespeople to deliver it. Apple sharply limits the messengers of its sharply crafted message. The result is that its customers repeat Apple's lines exactly as Apple crafts them. It's the ultimate feedback loop.

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Make products, not money. It is counterintuitive, and almost unbelievable, but Apple's way is the antithesis of the revenue optimization of the rest of the business world. Of course Apple wants to make money, and of course profits are important. (It registered an astounding $13 billion in profits last quarter.) But Apple doesn't approach a new product from the perspective of how much money it will make. Instead, it dreams up what will be a product its own people want to use, and then its sets about making the product. Only later will Apple apply the typical levers of business -- pricing, market penetration, etc. -- to its product plans. It's similar in tone and spirit to the career advice that wise older people give to inexperienced younger people: Do what you love, and the money will follow.

Adam Lashinsky's book,Inside Apple: How America's Most Admired--and Secretive---Company Really Works, was published in January by Grand Central Publishing.

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Joe Hockey's story of his refugee family making good in postwar Australia is indeed inspiring (''Politics of division will kill ambition'', March 5). However, Mr Hockey fails to mention that during those years rates of taxation for companies and wealthy individuals in this country were vastly greater than they are today. Thanks in large measure to this revenue, and a less hysterical approach to public debt, governments were able to build the infrastructure and provide the services that underpinned the long postwar boom.

Without this economic and social environment, people like the Hockeys would likely have found Australia a far tougher place to prosper. For today's wealthy elite and their political representatives to constantly demand ever-lower taxation not only smacks of selfishness but also of short-sightedness.

Geoff Saunders Jamberoo

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Mr Hockey misses the point. Swan and others, myself included, do not object to outstanding individual achievement and success. The objection is to the abuse of power, not the success itself.

Simeon Glasson Bondi

As one of his constituents, I feel disappointed that Joe Hockey has trotted out the ''envy'' card again in the discussion about the contributions of mining magnates to Australian society.

Nobody denies people the fruits of their success but there is an issue of equity. The Australian people, not just these individuals and their families, shareholders, employees and some parts of their communities, should receive a more substantial part of what belongs to ''our common wealth'', to provide for the common good now and in the future. The land belongs to all, not to companies or individual states.

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As the United States Supreme Court this month hears arguments involving the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, one industry leader believes that personal accountability may ultimately be the driver in the success or failure of any healthcare-related reform.

Regardless of how the Supreme Court rules on the individual mandate, America will not really get its healthcare shop in order until people realize that everyone has a personal, financial and societal responsibility to do what they can to make the healthcare system work better, said Peter Saravis, CEO of Evive Health. That means acknowledging that this notion that everyone has an unlimited right to healthcare without also having some accountability for their own lifestyle and health habits is simply not sustainable.

Saravis believes that real change will occur when people not only accept personal responsibility but when they are equipped with the knowledge and tools necessary to make informed healthcare decisions. Providing access to care is obviously important, but it is not enough unless people have the information and motivation to change behavior and take action, he says. More than any governmental legislation or political intervention, providing people with the information and tools they need to make intelligent decisions regarding health and lifestyle habits for themselves and their families is the greatest consumer protection of all.

Toward that end, an increasing number of employers and health plans routinely offer affordable health, fitness and wellness programs to help Americans get healthier, manage chronic disease and lower health costs. An industry frustration however is that not enough people participate in these programs, which Saravis attributes to a myriad of reasons including lack of time, feelings of being overwhelmed, low education or health literacy levels, cultural or logistical issues, poor health, or an inability to understand the value of preventive services.

To overcome these barriers Saravis says that employers and health plans need to not only provide information regarding health and access to programs, but must become smarter and more creative in how they engage their employees or members to truly participate. Fortunately, he says, there are now proven-effective methods to help motivate people to take action. And when they do, studies have shown a significant increase in employee health and an equally significant decrease in employers healthcare costs, says Saravis.

We as a society should be concerned with maintaining and improving ongoing health rather than just treating episodic illness, he continues. If you look at some of the most common causes of death in the United States lung cancer, coronary disease, AIDS, diabetes, respiratory disease, pneumonia you realize how many of these could be greatly affected, and in some cases controlled, not by more healthcare legislation but through a heightened awareness on the part of consumers and a thoughtful and intelligent change in lifestyle.

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When Gary Berglund became an adult, he turned to drugs and alcohol as a social outlet.

"I grew up very sheltered, so the friends I made, well, I thought everybody did drugs and drank," said Berglund, 33. "I thought that was just what you did."

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"I'm interested in sharing fitness with others the same way someone shared it with me," says Gary Berglund.

Before long, Berglund was addicted.

"I was 26, and I found myself working three jobs and selling everything I had and even things I didn't own to pawn shops so I could avoid withdrawals and so I could get high," he said.

Fortunately, Berglund's girlfriend, who is now his wife, invited him to join a gym with her.

"I immediately loved the feeling that lifting weights gave me," he said. "I automatically knew it would be a replacement for my negative behaviors."

When he started going to the gym, he was already in an addiction treatment program. Going to the gym turned into running, which turned into yoga, which eventually motivated Berglund to get three personal training certifications -- from the National Academy of Sports Medicine, from the National Strength and Conditioning Association and from the National Federation of Professional Trainers. He uses those certifications as a personal trainer at Life Time Fitness in Collierville.

"I was at the gym so much, I lived at the gym, I thought I might as well get a job there," he said. "I'm interested in sharing fitness with others the same way someone shared it with me."

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Proponents of gay marriage, who traditionally frame the cause as a matter of equality and civil rights, are increasingly invoking something else: family. And the tactic seems to be working.

In February three state legislatures passed statutes making gay marriage legal, and in each case the appeal to family connections was a central feature.

"We need to ask ourselves: How would it feel to be a child of a gay couple?" asked Washington's Democratic governor, Chris Gregoire, who signed the state's legislation Feb. 13 after having announced her support for it a month earlier. "How can we tell these children that their parents' love is seen as unequal under Washington law?"

A Washington state lawmaker who voted for the bill recalled her own marriage. "I was married for 23 years to the love of my life and he died six years ago," said Republican Rep. Maureen Walsh in a video that went viral. "How could I deny anyone the right to have that incredible bond with another individual in life?"

In New Jersey, 15-year-old Madison Galluccio told state lawmakers debating same-sex marriage what it's like being the adopted daughter of two gay dads.

"A lot of people think that my family is different," she testified before an Assembly committee. "You gave us a civil union. I don't know what that is.... It's very hard for me to explain to my friends. It's very hard that I can't tell them, 'Oh yeah, I have gay dads and they're married just like your parents.' But they're not."

Almost two weeks later, New Jersey lawmakers passed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage, but it was swiftly vetoed by Republican Gov. Chris Christie, who wants the issue decided by referendum.

In Maryland, where Democratic Gov. Martin O'Malley signed its bill into law Thursday, a Republican lawmaker had a change of heart over gay marriage after coming face to face with couples sharing their stories.

Wade Kach, left scrambling for a seat in a packed committee hearing last month, found a spot near the witness table.

"I saw with so many of the gay couples, they were so devoted to one another. I saw so much love," said Kach, a member of the House of Delegates. "When this hearing was over, I was a changed person in regard to this issue."

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24-02-2012 13:48 Spotlight skier Eleanor Magnuson talks about the season, her personal success and being the only senior on the team.

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24-02-2012 12:44 Spotlight skier Jeremy Hecker discusses the CCSA meet, skiing on a young team, his personal success and looks ahead to the national championships in early March.

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