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Last year she taught at the Woodrow WilsonSchool of Public and International Affairs atPrinceton University; currently she is CEO of theAmerican Association of Publishers, and the chairof a committee at The Institute for Civil Society,a social policy think tank...
...existing system may have been stretched about as far as it will go. That is why ideas like privatization are being discussed seriously for the first time outside libertarian and conservative think tanks. Critics have warned that investors expecting big returns may be sobered by enormous administrative costs and turnover fees. And, of course, there is the question of risk: What happens if the market goes into the tank? "For the public to put retirement funds into the stock market is like taking a trip to Las Vegas," warns the Brookings Institution's Henry Aaron...
...park, carefully calls "a representation, not a reproduction, of an African habitat." Stop to gaze at--then try, just try to tear yourself away from--the terrarium of mole rats, burrowing or eating or just collapsed in a pile like a failed pyramid of cheerleaders. In a cloudy tank, two hippos float with hefty grace. Meerkats (completing The Lion King's "hakuna matata" trio) stand sentinel on a hill, gazing through glass at suspected predators: us. Finally, an ennead of gorillas--four bachelors on one side of a waterfall, a family of five safely on the other--scuff their knuckles...
...second half of the century now ending has been shadowed by one overwhelming, ungovernable thought: that the moods, even the whims, of a single individual, post-Oppenheimer, could destroy much of the globe in a moment. Yet the image of the man before the tank stands for the other side of that dark truth: that in a world ever more connected, the actions of a regular individual can light up the whole globe in an instant. And for centuries the walls of the grand palaces and castles of the Old World have been filled with ceremonial and often highly flattering...
...much history is made at the service entrance by people lopped out of the official photographs or working in obscurity to fashion our latest instruments and cures. In a century in which so many tried to impress their monogram on history, often in blood red, the man with the tank--Wang Weilin, or whoever--stands for the forces of the unnamed: the Unknown Soldier of a new Republic of the Image...