Word: ideas
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...World War I, Woodrow Wilson unveiled a proposal to increase international security. His famous "14 points of light" was a plan by which he believed the Allies could not only win the war but prevent such wars from occurring in the future. This latter hope hinged largely on his idea for a "League of Nations," a collective organization of nations designed to maintain world order. When the Treaty of Versailles was drafted at the end of the war, the League of Nations was a major component...
With a delayed vote, CTBT still could have been rejected if the ensuing debate had proven it a bad idea. By rejecting it now, we have, in Clinton's words, "severely harm[ed] the national security of the United States" and "damage[d] our relationship with our allies." Unfortunately, these concerns don't seem to matter as long as Lott and the GOP have a chance to publicly embarrass their arch-nemesis...
...things that's interesting about the legislation is that it's so broad," Klawunn says. "The idea was to create equity for women and men. I think there are cases where it's been taken advantage of in ways that still don't make sense, because of power dynamics in our society...
...this idea that community service is the exclusive realm of the 'do-gooder' that diminishes its prestige in student's minds. While few undergraduates intend to totally dedicate themselves to social service, almost all of students want to contribute the world in a positive way. Whether by reforming campaign finance or providing more efficient financial service than J.P Morgan, everyone hopes to find a place in the real world where their talents are useful to society. We are all 'do-gooders' in the end. The bustle of the Career Forum just makes us forget that...
Welcome to France, the only major Western country where the idea of making a profit evokes popular fear and loathing, where privatization and flexibility are such taboo words that Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, a socialist, avoids using them. "You wonder just how exceptional France can be and still remain a player in the global economy," muses a Western diplomat in Paris. And yet--vive le paradoxe--France today boasts a healthy growth rate, low inflation and a muscular foreign-trade surplus. At the same time, Jospin has actually privatized more state-owned enterprises than did his conservative predecessors, has reined...