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...Navan, northwest of Dublin, respond to their Taoiseach - the official title of Ireland's Prime Minister - not with fatigue or ill temper, but with an awe and affection usually reserved for rock stars. As Bertie Ahern kicks off his campaign for elections expected within weeks, he remains startlingly popular for a man seeking a third consecutive term. And if there's a reversal and he finds himself out of a job by the summer, he could be in pole position for the next major international post to come free. In 2004 he turned down calls to become President...
...stark contrast to 2002, when 4.8 million people voted for Jean-Marie Le Pen of the far-right National Front and another 11.5 million for a gallimaufry of no-hopers, an unprecedented 37 million voters turned out on April 22 to propel Nicolas Sarkozy of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) and Socialist Ségolène Royal into a May 6 runoff between mainstream right and left. The strong showing of centrist contender François Bayrou (who captured 18.5% of the vote, compared to Sarkozy's 31% and Royal's 26%), now presents the two remaining...
...thus had no incentive to create alliances with free blacks or mixed populations. The second reason is offered by Yale historian Edmund Morgan in his celebrated study of Virginia: the élite, fearful of an insurrectionary union of white servants and slaves, actively promoted racism and a racially exclusive popular democracy as a way of dividing and ruling black and white workers. By glorifying whiteness and restricting the electorate to whites, a bond of racial solidarity emerged between all classes of whites predicated on the permanent exclusion of blacks...
...merchants with a royal patent: Imagine that Congress gave Wal-Mart and General Electric permission to colonize Mars. But of necessity, the day-to-day decisions were made in Jamestown, and its leaders were always fighting. Leaders who were incompetent or unpopular--sometimes the most competent were the least popular--were deposed on the spot. The typical 17th century account of Jamestown argues that everything would have gone well if everyone besides the author had not done wrong. Smith, for instance, described his fellow colonists as "ten times more fit to spoil a commonwealth than ... to begin...
...thing, as desirable as double-digit profit margins. It's proving just as difficult to achieve. Companies try all sorts of things to attract and promote minorities and women. They hire organizational psychologists. They staff booths at diversity fairs. They host dim-sum brunches and salsa nights. The most popular--and expensive--approach is diversity training, or workshops to teach executives to embrace the benefits of a diverse staff. Too bad it doesn't work...