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TIME's 10-year forecast as described in "10 Ideas for the Next 10 Years" is over¬confident [March 22]. In the first entry, "prophets of doom" are seen as missing the reality of American "nimbleness and adaptability." Yet your story misses the reality that America is in a governance gridlock, which raises serious questions about the nation's ability to cope with current crises like debt, unemployment, the terrorist threat and a diminished competitive position globally. William Gruber, LEXINGTON, MASS...
Fascinating issue - with the exception of Michael Lind's "The Boring Age." We could have moon colonies if it were economically feasible. Because of PCs, advanced linguistics and organizations that care, hundreds of "primitive" cultures are acquiring an alphabet and a written language for the first time. They are leaping into the modern world. Lind is in the Stone Age. Bob Thomas, ELIZABETHTON, TENN...
...believe Captain Graf is the first senior officer in the U.S. armed forces to have verbally abused subordinate staff. Were all previous offenders given similar worldwide publicity and vilification by TIME? The lady has already been penalized by military authority . Was it necessary for TIME to do a hatchet job on her as well? Gerry E. Wood, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA...
...Greeks who are expecting this change or the international community? Both, I think. First of all, the international community because in a sense in the European Union we have become a test case of both the euro - its survival - and how to deal with this high deficit in a time of crisis. It's not only a Greek problem. Our bad ways, if you like, or our difficulties or our wrong decisions, have exacerbated the problem of the international crisis in Greece. (Read: "Germany: Tensions...
...Norway or Sweden, people have faith in the state, they have faith that the state functions. How do rebuild that faith - or perhaps build it in the first place. It's easy to say you want to end corruption, but how do you actually change that political culture? The first thing is to realize that it exists as a problem and that we've accomplished already. People are saying: 'we do need this change. We do want to have a different state. We do want to fight corruption.' How do you do that? I think here we don't have...