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...boundaries--national, moral, legal--constrain the border's worst bad guys: Benjamin Arellano Felix, 49, and his kid brother Ramon, 36. The two baby-faced playboys head the Tijuana cartel, which sits atop Mexico's $30 billion drug-trafficking underworld and may be the most powerful organization in the country of any kind. Each year they smuggle to the U.S. hundreds of tons of cocaine, plus marijuana, heroin and methamphetamine, ferried on ships, on planes and inside truckloads of legitimate merchandise. The Arellanos are thought to have hundreds of millions of dollars stashed away, and that's after bribing Mexican...
This is not an agenda to constrain local control of education or place additional power in Washington. Curricular and program decisions should and will remain with the institutions and the states. We do not seek replication of the large, federally funded programs of the 1960s and earlier. What is necessary at the federal level is leadership. We ask President George W. Bush to articulate the national interest in international education, set goals for our nation and call us together-federal officials, governors, educators, exchange professionals, business leaders and foundations-to discuss these goals and commit ourselves to do our part...
Napster's predicament is a case of the law working too well. Usually, technology and business race ahead to new frontiers, while the rules necessary to constrain behavior in these areas struggle to catch up. In the 19th century, vagabonds and fools flocked west seeking their fortune, and in some places, like mining towns, they built a virtually lawless society. Only later, when sheriffs and judges arrived, did these areas begin to achieve a degree of civilization. In the 1980s, Wall Street invented new financial instruments like junk bonds and mortgage-backed bonds, only to abuse these Byzantine new securities...
...good diplomacy to relinquish a carrot that reinforces the better instincts of Mr. Putin, who is casting about for allies against American "hegemonism." Iraq sanctions? The Europeans are chafing under that burden, but you court futility if you don?t get them aboard for at least those sanctions that constrain Saddam?s military options...
...system in which the government controls a large part of the economy and redistributes wealth to produce social equality, then I think it is safe to say the likelihood of its making a comeback anytime in the next generation is close to zero. But the egalitarian political impulse to constrain the power of the wealthy in the interests of the weak and marginal remains strong and is already making a comeback. There are good reasons for thinking this impulse will not lead to new radical groups' achieving political power and implementing a coherent political agenda. Though, in the process...