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...famous "daisy" campaign ad--the brainchild of media consultant Tony Schwartz, who died June 15 at age 84--was shown just once, on Sept. 7, 1964. But its cultural shock waves persist. "There hadn't been an effective ad of that sort in the history of the presidency," says Kathleen Hall Jamieson, former dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. "[It] works because the audience fills in the meaning." And it worked for Johnson, who took 61% of the popular vote in a landslide win over Barry Goldwater...
...which are viable positions in a global economy. But we have seen an unprecedented period of untrammeled wealth accumulation in this country, and Webb makes a convincing pitch that the fabric of society is being shredded by greed. "It is not class warfare ... to point out that economic inequities persist," he writes. "In fact, the reverse is true: it is class warfare from the top down to pretend that such inequities don't matter...
...Governments have let such problems persist. Africa's burgeoning middle class may prove less patient. At the Cape Town meeting, members of this class expressed a common vision of what needs to be done - and a sense of urgency, too. In the past, entrepreneurs and other professionals largely avoided politics. Now they are increasingly influencing policy and demanding better leadership. Their impact, and their importance to Africa's future, haven't gone unnoticed. A European delegate with substantial African interests was asked which African investments he'd recommend. He replied: "Anything that supports the new middle class." Richard Dowden...
...Finally, in Africa, the colonial invasion has long receded, yet its comprehensive effects persist clear as day. Last November, PetroChina became the world’s largest corporation, profiting all the while from the murderous state of affairs in the Sudan, where Khartoum-sponsored mass murder persists in Darfur. Meanwhile, UBS, the Swiss financial services giant, facilitated PetroChina’s rise by hosting its Shanghai IPO—without considering the bargaining power it held to enact change in one of the world’s most neglected, most devastated quadrants. Mere greed seems to have...
...prices. Even though adverse weather in many regions over several seasons had hurt supplies, the situation now seemed to be returning to normal and was set to take some pressure off prices, she said. "We do not think that the record levels reached in recent months are likely to persist," she said. "There is nothing in the current situation that shows we should make a U-turn...