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...resolve that? You have talked of a "highest common factor" and not a "lowest common denominator." How do you ensure higher ideals? My job is to move the policy on. Not just for the E.U., but other parts of the world. There is the old idea, which still resonates, that you support the ideals you hold. Not to impose, but to help with issues like nation building. To do that, we should be ambitious. There is no lack of ambition in the Foreign Affairs Council. I have to do it within the constraints of needing to build a consensus...
...sphere of interest - ensuring that Bosnia does not slip back into conflict, working closely with Turkey to ensure its enormous potential for encouraging a new prosperity to Europe's East is realized, reaching out in a true partnership to the nations of North Africa - another good Sarkozy idea - to see if they can be brought within the European zone of prosperity. Doing nothing, giving in to inertia, will win the E.U. few friends. "An unsentimental President Obama has already lost patience with a Europe lacking coherence and purpose," according to the European Council on Foreign Relations. "In a post-American...
...film with Sophia Loren. Like a lot of Americans, he found memorizing historical facts boring. Because his family was directly related to Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother of the 16th U.S. President, he routinely recycled the same short paper he had written about her for easy classroom grades. "My idea of American history was just a course you were forced to take," Hanks says, laughing. (See the top 10 Tom Hanks hairstyles...
...challenge is that our business institutions evolved at a time when nature seemed limitless; the idea of endless natural bounty is embedded within our national identity. "In the past, natural resources were abundant," says Robert Costanza, Director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont. "We've used up all the frontier. Those days are gone. People are recognizing this, but our institutions haven't caught up." So markets continue to ignore natural capital as if it's of no economic consequence...
...East Harlem and parts of the affluent Upper West Side. Titans like Sutton and Rangel, he says, "were the trailblazers. They were the first. My run is different. I'm blazing the trail of a Harlem district that is not just black - it's more multicultural, multiracial. The idea is to bridge those barriers...