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...have been recycling, making compost from my lawn clippings and household refuse. I have planted some 300 trees. I've replaced all my light bulbs with energy-saving bulbs. I conserve water and electricity by boiling the kettle only three times a day, keeping the hot water in a vacuum flask. I turn the hot-water heater on only to heat water for a shower. In doing all this, I tell myself I am helping to solve the world's environmental problems. But this will never be enough so long as overpopulation continues. While I say bravo to all your...
...leadership, and that will create an internal battle within the party for the soul of the party," says James Thurber, director of American University's Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies. But with an unpopular lame-duck President, an even more unpopular Republican Party in Congress and a leadership vacuum at the top of the House, that soul search could be a very painful experience...
...Whatever the explanation - caution, confusion, failure to communicate - the upshot is that the straight business press has left a vacuum in explaining the consequences to the public. And that vacuum has been filled by professional gabbers like Glenn Beck and James Cramer, both of whom were predicting a possible Great Depression yesterday. They might well be right, but we've heard them get so excited about so much for so long, who can possibly know? The vacuum has also been filled by political columnists and pundits, some of whom (like Paul Krugman) actually know a lot about the subject...
...Where there's a vacuum of information, the loudest voices fill the gap. As does confusion. As does suspicion. If those things are hobbling us from making vital decisions right now, then it's time for the business press to step...
...second thoughts about the virtues of national unity and citizen involvement. Sometimes it feels like democracy in action. Other times it feels like mob rule. The complexity of the problem and intricacy of the solution meant that the public response was more emotional than anything else. In a leadership vacuum, we got irrational belligerence, a desire to punish the greedheads that will take its broadest toll on the victims, not the perps. And for all the righteous rage, there was a refusal to admit that in many cases Wall Street's sins are also our own: the average American...