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There are cases all around us of individuals speaking for groups and of groups coming to the consensus of individuals. Consider the stand the E.U. is taking against Austria and the dominos that have fallen since the U.S. ambassador withdrew. I don't mean to hold argumentative, individualist logic on a high plane above consensus. Intuition can be a great help in situations where the facts are dubious...
...against this background that in June of that year, Keith Lindner, then president of Chiquita and one of Carl's three sons in the family businesses, wrote a "Dear Ambassador" letter to Mickey Kantor outlining concerns over Europe's import restrictions. There was little response...
...individuals who would rise above the current of ordinary passion." Hamilton, Keyes continued, was no advocate of patriotic moderation. Government, he wrote, "involves the disposition to apply oneself unremittingly to the service of the nation." Keyes takes the classroom to his campaign. These are not academic questions for the ambassador. The other Republican candidates are unwilling to fulfill the role of moral steward, sketched out by Hamilton. "George W. Bush...is incapable of articulating the challenge facing our country in any way. Therefore, if our party nominates him, he will lose," Keyes declares. "The challenge of our party...
...adviser to President John F. Kennedy '40, Galbraith served as U.S. ambassador to India from 1961 to 1963. Galbraith also authored several widely read books, including his popular The Affluent Society, which was first published...
...affirmed that it remains committed to E.U. enlargement, but European governments will keep a close watch on Austria's policies on Europe and immigration. Unless Austria actually breaks with E.U. policy, however, isolation of Vienna is unlikely to go beyond such symbolic gestures as Israel's withdrawing its ambassador. And in a bid to assuage the critics, Haider has signed a statement saying Austria accepts her responsibility for "the horrendous crimes of the National Socialist regime." But Vienna will be measured less by what's in its history textbooks than by what's on its statute books, and the democratic...