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Inevitability is a nice talking point - it signifies confidence and momentum - but, alas, it isn't true. In Washington, nothing is inevitable except the humidity. In the early 1990s, people liked to say it was just a matter of time before Congress passed health care reform, and here we are 15 years later, still waiting. If we're still waiting for serious climate legislation even 10 years from now, our chance to avert catastrophe will be gone...
...Neuman also regrets the Administration's use of humiliation and shame as a lever for school reform. Failure to meet NCLB's inflexible goals meant schools would be publicly labeled as failures. Neuman now sees this as a mistake: "Vilifying teachers and saying we are going to shame them was not the right approach...
There was an air of invincibility surrounding Lee Myung Bak when he took office as South Korea's President in February. The 66-year-old former CEO won election with ease, the lopsided victory seemingly providing Lee with a mandate to ram through his ambitious agenda of economic reform, tough love for North Korea and a higher international profile for his country. But a mere three months later, the man South Koreans call "the Bulldozer" has bogged down. In the past few days, tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of downtown Seoul to demonstrate against...
...difficult to imagine Lee - a conservative free-trade advocate who has strong views about South Korea's need to reform its economy - as a consensus-seeker. After all, when he served as mayor of Seoul earlier this decade, he ordered that one of the city's major highways be demolished so a stream could be restored. As CEO of Hyundai Engineering & Construction, the country's largest construction company, Lee wielded a lot of power - as was customary. Korea a couple of decades ago was ruled by a handful of men: the government by a dictator and his aides...
...maternal deaths, reports of botched back-alley abortions, and children born into families that can't afford to raise them. "The consequences are far-reaching," says Aya Fujimura-Fanselow, a legal adviser to the Center for Reproductive Rights. "In the 15 years we've been involved in legal reform for reproductive rights, this is one of the most devastating bans we?ve ever seen...