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...with the Department of Commerce. ICANN’s activities, according to human rights icons like China and Iran, are an unconscionable infringement of other nations’ rights by the American corporate-governmental cabal. Of course China and Iran (and for that matter Tunisia, the aptly chosen sight of the conference) would, if they controlled domain-name assignments, never, ever misuse this power to crush dissidents. His Excellency Mohammad Solaymani, Iran’s minister of communication and technology, for one, said that “Internet governance should be transparent and democratic”—sort...
...game in which the only goal is to beat the other guy. The ideal of principled leadership, so important to the founders of this country, is dead. The irony is that our leaders constantly worry what the Founding Fathers intended about abortion and gun ownership but have lost sight of the need for moral leadership. Roger Connolly Wading River, New York...
...game in which the only goal is to beat the other guy. The ideal of principled leadership, so important to the founders of this country, is dead. The irony is that our leaders constantly worry what the Founding Fathers intended about abortion and gun ownership but have lost sight of the need for moral leadership. Roger Connolly Wading River, New York, U.S. Thank you, Joe Klein, for so eloquently expressing my frustration with elected officials who don't know how to stop politicking and start governing. Is it naive to think they can learn? That is what the American people...
...Delano's book Empire: Impressions from China, is an image of plainly dressed Chinese on Shanghai's Bund gazing across the river at the buildings in Pudong. We can't see the people's faces, but their posture suggests they have been standing there a long time, contemplating the sight of Shanghai's biggest tourist attraction, a shiny visual shorthand for national ambitions: height, wealth, modernity, progress. Yet in Delano's picture, the towers appear faint and far away. They don't scrape the sky so much as leach into it. Maybe they're about to come into focus, maybe...
...Amid all the punditry, grandstanding and technical talk?the WTO has a language of its own that includes arcane concepts such as "Swiss coefficients" and "amber box support" (don't ask)?it's easy to lose sight of the big question: Does it really matter if the Hong Kong talks sputter and the Doha Round fails? The global economy, after all, has been humming along nicely under the old rules, which date back to the Uruguay Round in 1994. Since the U.S. bounced back from its post-9/11 slide, world economic growth has been more buoyant than...