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...Cabinets. In Norway it is scarcely newsworthy anymore that every other member of the Cabinet is a woman, and more than a third of the parliament. Brundtland even toys with the idea of changing the country's system of hereditary monarchy to allow princesses as well as princes to inherit the throne. And in the privacy of her own home, this socialist crusader is married to a prominent conservative scholar and columnist, who raised their four children while she sat in the Cabinet...
...particularly embarrassing when "post-history" produces its first ugly spectacular, whether it is a nuclear war between two backward and strange- thinking countries that never cared much for Karl Marx or Adam Smith, or an ecological disaster that is beyond the micromanagement of the technocrats who Fukuyama predicts will inherit the earth...
...Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich get it handed -- they inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network. That's shared bounty of class...
...Inherit the Wind...
...Inherit the Wind...