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Paul Schulte, a former Lehman Brothers star analyst who is now with Japan's Nomura (which took over bankrupt Lehman's Asian operations), recently compared bank balance sheets in various countries and discovered significant differences. One telling disparity is leverage. The higher the leverage, the greater the risk, and despite efforts to put them on sounder financial footing, U.S. and European banks remain overstretched by historical standards and relative to their peers. (See the top 10 bankruptcies...
...This American ideal is in crisis as never before, the challenge of re-establishing its luster has never been greater. Leaders like Johnson and Nixon may have besmirched it but they never argued outright that law should be subservient to executive power. The Bush administration, with Cheney as its architect and now its spokesman, flat out attacked our core American ideal, attempting to convince us and the world by its actions and rhetoric that Law is an inconvenient impediment to security to be openly dispensed with at executive behest...
...government. Our courts affirm that we are a government under law. With Internet, all people all over the world can witness the administration of justice in America. Contrary to Cheney’s assertion that we need secrecy, force and torture to ensure our national security, we would achieve greater security by reasserting our openness and fairness. Instead of hiding our judicial process from public, our judiciary should open up its process. By demonstrating the quality of American legal process to our citizenry and our world, we show pride and respect for our country and our ideals. Respect breeds security...
...That outlier status is largely gone now, traded in the late 1990s for the greater benefits of legitimate recognition—what Jaeger calls “a defined place in the institution.” The key to the exchange, Jaeger says, was collaboration and understanding—the same kind of communicative sentiment that he now espouses as the union’s director...
...might have reason to worry about unequal access to enhancement, but it is unclear that greater restrictiveness is the right way to combat this problem. When only athletes willing to bend the rules and students with the money to get their hands on an Adderall prescription can benefit, then inequality results. But if we instead work to make enhancement available to all, we create a level playing field—only this one is several rungs higher than the old, unenhanced version. (This logic led the equality-loving John Rawls to conclude that genetic engineering was a boon...