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...power at the center of our national life. At the same time, they arrived at those checks and balances through a spirit of compromise--something that's notably absent today in Washington. On the final day of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Benjamin Franklin noted that every member should "doubt a little of his own infallibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Broken Government | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

Comparisons between the two countries will no doubt be much discussed when the U.N. hosts a conference in New York City on March 31 to hash out how best to help Haiti rebuild. Donor governments already know why there was so much less destruction in Chile: it's because the government there forces builders to adhere to rigorous codes, while Haiti's incorrigible corruption and carelessness left such regulation all but nonexistent. On the global corruption index put out by Transparency International, a Berlin-based nonprofit that lists countries from the least to most corrupt, Chile ranks 25th and Haiti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chile and Haiti: A Tale of Two Earthquakes | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

Bellerive wouldn't go as far as to blame Haiti's élite for the more than 200,000 earthquake deaths. But those who doubt Haiti's ability to transform its government should note that Chile wasn't always an OECD candidate - it spent 17 years, from 1973 to 1990, under a brutal military dictatorship - and that Haitians are more than capable of emulating Chileans if given the chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chile and Haiti: A Tale of Two Earthquakes | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

...President-elect Sebastián Piñera on March 11. She is expected to ask U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for a relatively small amount of American aid when Clinton visits Chile on Tuesday during her previously scheduled tour of Latin America this week. Clinton will no doubt praise Bachelet's leadership during the emergency - as most Chileans have, despite the apparent tsunami mishap. It will be up to Piñera to put mechanisms in place to make sure Chile is as prepared at sea as it is on land when the next earthquake strikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chile: Prepared for the Quake but Not the Tsunami | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

Harvard’s quick start ensured that Stone’s big win was never in doubt...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stone Breaks All-Time Wins Mark as Women's Hockey Tops Princeton | 2/27/2010 | See Source »

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