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Maintaining a personal relationship becomes harder as his fanbase grows but, ever astute, he hired a fan to oversee his social accounts.

Whoever is chosen will need to be an astute diplomat, assuming power at a pivotal time for the Olympic movement, and amid a complicated and tense geopolitical landscape.

Best known for chronicling the counterculture of the 1960s and ’70s with essays like “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” and “The White Album,” Didion spent her life writing about her astute observations.

The fish appear to be thriving, which has offered a small measure of comfort, and a therapist-friend made an astute observation: “You’re making a home for them, because you can’t make a home for yourself.”

We are also some of the most astute students of American politics and society and its potential and failures as a democratic society.