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...dead," he wrote in 1923. He would make it to 1946, but we're all still here.) When there's an immediate crisis to battle, though, Keynes makes for a reassuring companion. While he is sometimes depicted by U.S. conservatives as a wild-eyed socialist, his actual mission in the 1930s was to save capitalism. Now that capitalism may need saving again, is it any wonder that we turn again to Keynes...
...child soldiers to be nearly 300,000 worldwide. In light of these dangers facing people, who we empirically know to be sentient, defining dignity for plants and privacy for goldfish is a waste of time and utterly senseless.Paradoxically, the ECNH was not unaware of the inherent silliness of its mission. One of ECNH’s members, Markus Schefer, a professor of constitutional and administrative law at the University of Basel, lamented to the Wall Street Journal, “We couldn’t start laughing and tell the government we’re not going to do anything...
...When Trojan contacted Byrne, he had recently finished a similar gig with Camel cigarettes and says he would have preferred a call from a less polarizing company, like 1-800-FLOWERS. Byrne came around, however, to Trojan’s mission. “I think what Trojan did is just very positive. It’s a way to get kids in and enjoy the evening and get people to be healthy...
...could be. If an Apollo project to create a new alternative-energy economy is his highest priority, as he told me, why hasn't he given a major speech about it during the fall campaign? Why hasn't he begun to mobilize the nation for this next big mission? In part, I suppose, because campaigns are about firefighting - and this campaign in particular has been about "the fierce urgency of now," to use one of Obama's favorite phrases by Martin Luther King Jr., because of the fears raised by the financial crisis and because of the desperate, ferocious attacks...
...Darfur investigations on the grounds that they pose a threat to international peace and security. African Union leaders also say that by prosecuting Bashir, the ICC will complicate matters for U.N. peacekeepers in Darfur, most of whom are from neighboring countries on the continent. Bashir attempts to stall the mission have already left it severely hobbled. "We are simply concerned with the best possible sequencing of measures so that the most immediate matters of saving lives and easing the sufferings of the people of Darfur are taken care of first," Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete, the current AU chairman, told...