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...School is a professional school serving society's need for excellence in government, but we see our purpose as much broader. We train people for every level of public service: federal, state, local and international. Our focus is not exclusively on American society and in training individuals from other societies, we open the eyes of American students to non-American viewpoints. That helps us avoid parochialism in our teaching...
...Orleans has traditionally nurtured some distinctly non-American attributes, like indolence. There have always been a good number of people who are not eager to get ahead. Even its businessmen have had a reputation for being only mildly industrious and distinctly non-entrepreneurial. New Orleans has been known as a place content to make do with its natural endowments -- a great port on the Mississippi River, and a share of the state oil money, and a reputation for wickedness and charm that drew a steady stream of tourists for decades. For most of this century, New Orleans hasn't done...
...American schools teach fewer foreign languages than those in other countries, they teach less non-American history, they teach less science and math. And these failings in the educational system have important consequences for America's political and economic relations with other countries...
Previously, U.S. warships have only been permitted to provide "humanitaran aid" to non-American ships in distress and requesting aid, but not to intercede in armed conflict involving those ships...
Foreigners are even more enamored of bonds. They had amassed $142 billion in corporate and non-Treasury government bonds (including mortgage-backed securities) by the beginning of this year. But non-American investors are fonder still of securities sold by the Treasury Department. Foreigners own 16% of the $1.7 trillion in outstanding publicly held U.S. Treasury debt instruments. At the latest sale of U.S. Treasury long-term bonds in August, Japanese buyers snapped up more than 30% of the 10-to-30-year offerings, boosting their holdings in Treasury securities to $65 billion or more...