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...leader who was great because he was astringent - Winston Churchill - never won an election through astringency. Throughout the 1930s, when he was warning of the Nazi peril, he was almost uniformly rejected as a crank. He was not elected Prime Minister in 1940; rather, he was installed by a Parliament that deferred general elections until after the war. And when one was finally held, in 1945, the British people promptly voted Churchill out of office. We need not only great leaders but also a public great enough to accept their leadership. M.L. Cross, Stephenville, Texas...
...English, among other talents, are adept at nurturing their grudges. How else does one explain the enduring enmity toward Guy Fawkes, a conspirator in a plot to blow up Parliament in 1605? Some four centuries after Fawkes was caught, tortured and executed for his role in a scheme that never came to fruition, Britons still celebrate his demise each Nov. 5 by burning his likeness in effigy and setting fireworks ablaze...
...climate-change summit set for Poland in December - less than a month after the U.S. elects a new President - European leadership will be more important than ever. Overall, the political will seems intact: in the face of strong opposition from energy-intensive industries, the environment committee of the European Parliament earlier this month voted to require most electric utilities to buy all their carbon permits after 2012. (Currently, most European governments give their permits away; selling them should speed carbon reductions and boost alternative-energy development but will cost more.) Those proposals still need to be voted...
...leader who was great because he was astringent - Winston Churchill - never won an election through astringency. Throughout the 1930s, when he was warning of the Nazi peril, he was almost uniformly rejected as a crank. He was not elected Prime Minister in 1940; rather, he was installed by a Parliament that deferred general elections until after the war. And when one was finally held, in 1945, the British people promptly voted Churchill out of office. We need not only great leaders but also a public great enough to accept their leadership. M.L. Cross, STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS...
...week, Honda cut its annual revenue forecast for the 2009 fiscal year to $5.2 billion, a 19% decline compared with FY2008 results. Sony announced that its profit dropped 72% in the first half of the year. Help may be on the way. But Aso must convince a divided Japanese parliament to pass his stimulus package amid growing skepticism that it will be too little, too late...