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...Bloomberg and Schwarzenegger are successful because they serve constituents rather than political interests. They don't govern with a my-way-or-the-highway approach but are willing to reach across the aisle, admit mistakes and change directions. While they don't appear concerned with their legacies, both are creating them through their work. Rather than issue a test on what it means to be conservative, they deliver what the people and environment need. Both have the special qualities of great leaders: the ability to see around corners, understand the ramifications of policies and lead by example and inclusion. David...
Devout Christians here readily admit the mission was poorly organized, but they insist that it had an admirable purpose. They argue that the group was only doing what it is supposed to do: help others, as Jesus directed them to do. The missionaries wanted to deliver aid and simply didn't care if they were in harm...
...security procedures his league has in place to guard against such violations, including audits of its own auditors. Only the FBI's investigation will reveal how much more the NBA could have done to prevent a referee from betting and passing along confidential information, as Donaghy is expected to admit to doing, according to Stern...
Purdue, which was represented earlier on in its negotiations with the government by Rudy Giuliani, did admit to mislabeling the drug from 1996-2001. But how much responsibility does a drug company bear for the bad decisions that individuals make, particularly after the criminal crackdown on OxyContin abuse began? In the end, questions like that may have kept the executives out of prison...
...Nonetheless, Elshtain, an Augustine expert, is willing to project Biblical morality into circumstances when denying entry to groups of immigrants is flat wrong, such as Franklin Roosevelt's unwillingness to admit a boatload of Jewish refugees from the Third Reich, resulting in their almost certain doom. But this, she writes, "is completely different from uncontrolled border crossing by people whose motivations are not life and death in the sense I am describing it but, rather economic...