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...South or West or Northwest or anywhere but two cities in California and one in Illinois. Take the romance out of your place of origin, and not moving up to the big leagues is hard to justify. “I’m going to work in agricultural reform in Boise” just doesn’t sound like a good enough excuse for not moving to New York with the rest of the world.It’s a product of our collective egotism that, by the end of our time at Harvard, all we really ever...
...Similarly, and since 2000, Croatia has been working toward the same goal, and its institutional reform has caused EU representatives to hint at membership before the end of the decade. A progress report brought out on Tuesday pointed out, however, that important issues like judicial reform and bureaucratic corruption need to be addressed before a EU flag flies in Zagreb...
...With proper incentives, the EU is bringing reform and values into countries outside its current borders. One day, that can include Macedonia, Montenegro, and even Ukraine. This form of power will succeed at meaningful change where old strategic map-making failed, by choice and not imposition. Mapping ‘Europe’ is still a political rather than geographic matter, and it should remain that...
Drug dealers are bad guys, but even they should be treated fairly. That's why advocates of sentencing reform are cheering a recent federal move to narrow the jaw-dropping disparity in sentences for trafficking in two versions of the same drug, cocaine. But it's way too early for them to be declaring victory...
...chat the day after the Mondale endorsement, I asked her about political balance. Most members of her party would agree that George W. Bush had taken the nation wildly off-kilter to the right, but when had the government been imbalanced to the left? "One would argue that welfare reform was to a great extent a reaction to going off too far in one direction," she said carefully, acknowledging the success of her husband's 1996 initiative - although, according to some historical accounts, she had reservations about it at the time. But she quickly moved back to the Bush presidency...