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...home and abroad, they have started to do now. Things went wrong and are continuing to go wrong under President Bush's management of both global and domestic affairs in large part because the press has not done its job well. Now, journalists who should have done some serious investigative work five years ago are playing catch-up. How much responsibility for this turmoil are the subservient and compliant media prepared to accept? The press alone is not to be blamed for the crisis, but it has connived too readily in its own debasement. Javed Akbar Markham, Canada...
...There have been many attempts to breathe life into the Doha Round - why should this initiative be any different? There is a wide appreciation among all the players that we are in the endgame. I think everyone realizes what a serious situation we are in. There is a shared sense of urgency about this, although it is partly for reasons to do with the electoral calendar in both the U.S. and Europe...
...Administration ready to do a deal? President Bush said that he wanted a deal sooner rather than later, and expressed impatience with the negotiators - not least, his own. And the Democratic leadership said it wanted to put partisanship behind it. But the Administration now needs to make a serious gesture...
Voters also don't take kindly to nonpoliticians: two businessmen, Wendell Willkie and Ross Perot, made serious runs for the White House, although neither came close. Americans will elect a political neophyte only if he passes the Hamilton test of pre-eminent ability. Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight Eisenhower had never held elective office, but they won their wars. Some Presidents pass both tests: Theodore Roosevelt fought well in the Spanish-American War and in New York State politics. Among the prospective 2008 candidates, only one has shown pre-eminent ability: Rudy Giuliani, in solving the crime problem...
...hard to tame scientifically? The answer, I suggest, lies not in the stars but in ourselves: our brains have not evolved with the necessary equipment to resolve this mystery. Our brains are good for getting us around and mating successfully, and even for doing some serious physics, but they go blank when they try to understand how they produce the awareness that is our prized essence. The consolation is that we shall always be of intense interest to ourselves, long after quantum theory has become...