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...FAVOR A SHAKE-UP OF INDIGENOUS POLICIES? Governments of all persuasions tend to just chuck money at problems and hope they'll go away. The real issue is that we as Aboriginal people have to take ownership of, and responsibility for, things...
...being responsible for the Irgun and the Lehi attack on Deir Yassin, a Palestinian village that was annihilated in 1948. Minachem Begin, after the attack stated: “Accept my congratulations on this splendid act of conquest. Convey my regards to all the commanders and soldiers. We shake your hands. We are all proud of the excellent leadership and the fighting spirit in this great attack…Continue this until victory. As in Deir Yassin, so everywhere, we will attack and smite the enemy. God, God, Thou has chosen us for conquest.” Following his election...
...post-1945 Wirtschaftswunder - when was the last time that he got his due?) Gordon Brown, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, got a round of heartfelt applause - but for his many contributions to ameliorating poverty and misery in the developing world, not for anything he has done to shake the rich half of Europe out of its slumber. Two years ago, at the Time Board of Economists in Davos, Moisés Naím, editor of Foreign Policy magazine in Washington, said that Europe "has a tsunami coming its way" in the shape of competition from Asian...
...salary and bonus, and presumably can pay for his own investment advice. There?s been disclosures of $2,000 gift cards for directors and one sweetheart deal where a company spent millions leasing aircraft from its CEO?s privately owned firm. And as part of his effort to shake up management at Time Warner (parent company of Time.com), investor Carl Icahn has been railing of late against what he calls excessive perks at the media giant, most notably the five corporate planes used by top executives for both business and personal travel. A Time Warner spokesman notes that after...
...took the righteous outrage of a peer––one of the few who actually belongs here with me––at dinner a few weeks ago to shake me from my mindless complacency. Remarking on an A she received on an “incredibly easy” Expos paper she’d just written, she intimated to me that the class’ average grade of C-plus boggled her supremely apt mind. “Everyone here’s just so stupid!” she declared, brimming with...