Word: legacyism
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China's rampant development has produced a legacy of terrible pollution, and China gives its citizens no voice in what happens to their neighborhoods. Our system may be inconvenient, but it allows our society to balance individual rights with the benefits of development. As you noted, that's one thing...
And yet, New Delhi and Washington have something special going for them, something the Americans will probably never have with the Chinese. At the state dinner, Obama extolled the values of democracy and pluralism held dear by both the U.S. and India, and the shared legacy of Mahatma Gandhi and...
The graduating class has created a vast amount of respect for the team, and set the bar higher than it has been in decades. And while the seniors know that they depart with a tremendous legacy, they too have confidence that their successors will uphold the program’s...
Last week, 32 young Americans won Rhodes Scholarships. Their tenures at Oxford are funded by the legacy of the British imperialist Cecil Rhodes, a man whose life would not be honored today were it not for his scholarships—and specifically his vision that young people of outstanding intellect...
More than 20 years after he transformed Italian TV, Berlusconi is Prime Minister for the third time; he has already served longer in the office than anyone since 1946. Of late, to be sure, he's taken some lumps. Italy's Constitutional Court overturned a law granting Berlusconi immunity from...