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...especially in the top ranks of journalism, there's class bias. If I wanted to look at potential conflicts of interest in reporters covering bank bailouts, for instance, I'd be less concerned about their party affiliation than whether they're based (like me) in New York City, where the economy lives and dies on finance...
...Look at our political debates today. Is it liberal or conservative to oppose multibillion-dollar payouts for the bankers and insurers who flushed our economy down their gold-plated toilets? Our conception of politics is broken if it cannot account for the fact that Michael Moore and Glenn Beck come to some of the same conclusions while having very different philosophies. Yet pollsters and the media still rely on it, to frame politicians and themselves...
...himself. But the film's Argentine director, Nicolás Entel, says the point is to promote reconciliation in Escobar's homeland. "Colombia is a nation in which cycles of violence can continue from generation to generation," he says. "If you do something to me, my family members will look for your family members ... So [the film] has the value of saying, 'It stops here. We are not going to inherit our parents' hatred.' " (See how police tracked and killed Pablo Escobar...
...Lisbon Treaty has the potential to herald the emergence of a new world actor - a Europe that can look upwards and outwards and is equipped with the bureaucratic tools to do so," says Daniel Korski, a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). But as the E.U. sets about implementing the Lisbon Treaty, Korski says the world must be patient while the new institutional infrastructure takes shape. "Butterflies are beautiful, in part because they take time to develop," he says...
...fact, one of Johnson's key initiatives has been to look at ways of reducing teenage crime. Proposals range from compelling troubled youths to join organizations like the Scouts to funding literacy and numeracy drives for deprived kids. Tackling teenage muggers wasn't one of his recommendations, and the police have warned the public against following Johnson's potentially dangerous example. (Read "Boris Johnson: The Clown Prince...