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...Leadership, we should note, is a word and a concept that is used much more often in and about the U.S. than it is anywhere else. The French have so much trouble with the idea of a leader that they often revert to using the English word. The Germans - for understandable reasons - do not boast of their own nation's führerschaft. But American politicians, of all stripes, have no problem in claiming a leadership role for the U.S. - in fact, they regard it as axiomatic that the U.S. should "lead" the world. As David Rieff argued recently...
...That should not be surprising. Justice, after all, is an older concept than democracy; societies which had no conception of democracy as we know it nonetheless had sophisticated systems of justice. But it is important to distinguish two ways in which justice is relevant to claims of American leadership. First, there is a search for equity between the competing claims of individuals - the sort that might be made by a Palestinian farmer, for example, who has seen water from the local aquifer appropriated by an Israeli settlement. We ignore such claims, and the sullen outrage that accompanies them...
...influence of RealtyTrac goes beyond shaping public-policy responses like the one in Virginia. The company winds up having sway over the very concept of foreclosure rates. Early on, members of New York's task force thought the best way to look at foreclosure rates would be as a percentage of households with a mortgage. That was finally tossed in favor of RealtyTrac's measure of foreclosures as a percentage of all households. If the state reported its preferred figure, it would seem to have a greater problem than other states when people compared the two sets of data. "RealtyTrac...
...lost. “The Sopranos” addressed this issue by making the culmination of Tony’s character the end of the series instead of forcing fans to watch the show deteriorate. Now, two of my once-favorite shows are failing to deal with the antihero concept as gracefully, prompting me to wonder if producers need to realize that the most interesting characters should have the shortest lifespans.Consider Fox’s medical drama “House,” now in its fifth season, which stars Hugh Laurie as brilliant case-cracking doctor and miserable...
...with a slogan and a talent for cutting to the core of an argument that some environmentalists (Al Gore, for instance) don't always possess. But while Jones has become the face of the new green-collar economy, he's hardly the only environmentalist pushing the idea. The concept is gaining steam because when it comes to climate change, simply protecting the environment is not enough. The only way the environmental movement can grow beyond a relatively small elite is if it meets broad, basic economic needs, not just green ones. "We need to go from talking about green...