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...after the shooting, Whittington, who turns 79 next month, experienced a minor heart attack caused by a piece of birdshot that lodged in or near his heart. But by Friday he was well enough to leave the hospital. A lifelong Republican who is also respected by Democrats for helping reform Texas' prison system, Whittington needled reporters as he left. "This past weekend encompassed all of us in a cloud of misfortune and sadness that is not easy to explain, especially to those who are not familiar with the great sport of quail hunting," he said. Whittington was dressed immaculately...
...MAKE A BIT OF DIFFERENCE." DO YOU STILL FEEL ALL THOSE FLOORS ARE EXPENDABLE? The statement about losing 10 floors was made in the context that there's not a bureaucracy in the world that can't be more efficient. What we're trying to address is whether different reform efforts that we've undertaken can make the organization better, more agile, more effective and more transparent...
...either case, how would Britain change? Not much. So much ink has been spilled on the personal rivalry between Blair and Brown that it is easy to lose sight of the fact that on the big issues - the case for an open economy, a need to reform public services, an admiration of most things American - they are cut from the same cloth. "People forget that Brown was a founder of New Labour, as Blair was," says Vernon Bogdanor, professor of government at Oxford University. Any differences that emerge between the two men, Bogdanor continues, will be "ones of emphasis...
...provide an excuse to not hold ourselves to such standards when possible (another serious deficiency of ethical consumerism is that it is primarily a luxury of the wealthy, but that is another discussion). In addition, one must simultaneously protest the current system more generally by demanding serious systematic reform at the local, national, and global levels...
Institutions such as Harvard have a special obligation given their great potential for influence. Yet to expect established institutions to head the movement for wholesale reform is naïve. Rather, the passionate individuals that compose civil society must lead the charge. Only then will the various “enlightened” or “progressive” institutions follow suit...