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...best way to signal both to the U.S. and the rest of the world that the White House is getting greener would be to send a high-level delegation along - or even stop by himself. It's important to realize that much of the rest of the world's disdain for America originates in Bush's apparent contempt for international climate action, first indicated by his withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol process not long after taking office. Changing that attitude - even if real progress doesn't happen immediately, which it won't - would go a long way toward repairing America...
...disastrous legacies of the Bush Administration, perhaps the most disturbing is the profoundly anti-intellectual bent to its governing style. The Bush presidency has been marked by a willful disdain for the importance of ideas and knowledge. Flying “by the seat of one’s pants” may be an acceptable tactic for fighter pilots, but it should never be the modus operandi of our chief executive...
...Washington D.C. law firm to investigate whether Strauss-Kahn had abused the power of his job in dealing with an avowed affair with a co-worker, the organization's Executive Board cleared the Frenchman of any dismissible violation of ethics codes. In doing so, however, its members made their disdain of Strauss-Kahn's adulterous behavior clear. In a statement released late Oct. 25, the Board said the independent inquiry "concluded that there was no harassment, favoritism, or any other abuse of authority." But it went on to note "the incident was regrettable and reflected a serious error of judgment...
...from the uproar over Strauss-Kahn's affair. That will leave him with the difficult challenge of taking up the leading role many global politicians now call for the IMF to assume, even as many of his own staffers-particularly women-continue to regard Strauss-Kahn with resentment and disdain. Proving his reformist talents in a time of crisis as he also demonstrates unimpeachably monogamous behavior will not only be vital for Strauss-Kahn to up the IMF's role in a re-regulated international finance system; it may also be essential to his hopes to win the Socialist candidacy...
There are aspects of Keynes that haven't worn so well, his disdain for long-run economic considerations among them. ("In the long run we are all dead," he wrote in 1923. He would make it to 1946, but we're all still here.) When there's an immediate crisis to battle, though, Keynes makes for a reassuring companion. While he is sometimes depicted by U.S. conservatives as a wild-eyed socialist, his actual mission in the 1930s was to save capitalism. Now that capitalism may need saving again, is it any wonder that we turn again to Keynes...