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...Stand back, however, and something rather encouraging is going on. Those making U.S. security policy are learning how to pitch appeals for European help with humility. ("We have stumbled along the way," said Gates. "And we are still learning.") And Europeans have learned to listen to their U.S. friends with respect...
...that by 10 - the number of satellite cities going up around Shanghai alone - and you get a sense of the economic forces at work. To the developers who conjured this place out of nothing, the payoff is as close to a matter of fact as any investment can be. Listen to Guo Guangchang, the co-founder and CEO of Fosun Group - whose subsidiary, Forte, is one of the primary developers here - and the message is clear: if you build it, they will come...
...according to their judgment-or their constituency? Political theorists have debated this for two centuries. These days, you generally hear candidates say we should choose them for their judgment; they don't say, Vote for me, and I'll vote the way you tell me to. "I don't listen to polls," candidates boast, but polls are the way the people speak to their officials-and if you simply substitute the words the people for the word polls, candidates would be saying "I don't listen to the people...
...should the 796 superdelegates in the Democratic Party listen to? A group of Representatives, Senators, governors, party members and ex-officials, these folks represent 20% of all the delegates needed to be nominated but are not bound to vote according to any constituency. Exactly none of them were elected by primary voters to be delegates. The superdelegates were created in 1982 to bring some power back to the party establishment after the primary process had gotten a little too democratic and unruly-and had succeeded in nominating some unelectable candidates for the general election...
...assumption is that people who listen to talk radio are idiots or mindless robots or victims of slick marketing and packaging. So there's sort of a condescending view of the audience of talk radio; people are sometimes held in contempt by some people. It's just totally wrong. It's 180 degrees out of place...