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Waiting for the President There's the rub. If he is to fulfill his ambitious agenda, Brown will have to master the one skill he has never perfected: the ability to communicate and persuade. In his defense, he can claim bad luck: he followed into office Tony Blair, at his best one of the most pitch-perfect masters of the black arts of political persuasion ever seen. But after a rocky few months, some Labour Party activists, worried about their prospects at the next election (which doesn't have to be held until 2010), openly wonder whether Brown...
...insists that there is a "much clearer and implicit sense" in the U.S. than in Europe of a morality "bequeathed by Christianity." He has also given earnest thought to the mechanics of this civil religion, specifying that to affect the moral consensus, it is not enough for Catholics to rub shoulders with other Christians; they must translate their concerns from doctrinal language into a "public theology" accessible...
...Perhaps Hillary should have jettisoned Bill before she began her campaign. A Hillary presidency could eclipse Bill's, and that would rub his ego the wrong way. And you can take this to the bank: if Hillary does not get the Democratic presidential nomination, their marriage is toast. Patricia Chlum, Homer Glen...
Perhaps Hillary should have jettisoned Bill before she began her campaign. A Hillary presidency could eclipse Bill's, and that would rub his ego the wrong way. And you can take this to the bank: if Hillary does not get the Democratic presidential nomination, their marriage is toast. Patricia Chlum, HOMER GLEN...
...there lies the rub: The chance of either China and India - two countries that remain poor, despite the speed at which their economies are growing - accepting limits on their greenhouse gas emissions is virtually nil. In fact, Chinese officials recently reiterated their own stock position that global warming is chiefly the responsibility of the developed nations that have been burning carbon at industrial rates over a century during which China and India barely registered on the global economic scale. So, as long as the U.S. - by far the world's top carbon emitter by historical standards - insists that...