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...Bobigny self-interest has replaced ideology, and the Communists have built their political machine on a hair-trigger response to the grass roots. "They blanket the city," says opposition city councilor Jean-Luc Romero. "The moment anyone loses a job, a party worker stops by to offer help, part-time employment or a social subsidy." Among Bobigny's 44,000 residents, the 2,700 Communist activists are organized into 70 neighborhood and factory- based cells. If a family cannot pay the rent in its low-income housing project, the local cell leader will intervene with the authorities. If police show...
...government deficit, spend more on education and so on, in a trade negotiation known as the Structural Impediments Initiative. Leslie Gelb of the New York Times points out that these are "the very steps any American with half a brain knows we ought to be taking in our own self-interest." Trouble is, the Structural Impediments negotiations are halfhearted on both sides (America is asking that the Japanese do things like stop working on Saturdays). In a notorious 1989 book titled The Japan That Can Say No, a popular Japanese legislator named Shintaro Ishihara declared, "No other nation will...
...country's postwar foreign policy has been a mix of shortsightedness and self-interest. Like the Bush Administration, Fahd had hoped Saddam Hussein would be a casualty of the gulf war; the King now fears that a Shi'ite-dominated Iraq possibly aligned with Iran is worse than coexisting with a weakened Saddam. Washington's hopes of Saudi leadership in the intensified search for Arab-Israeli peace were dashed when Riyadh refused direct participation in negotiations with Israel. Only under intense U.S. pressure did the Saudis consent to discuss such peripheral issues with Israel as arms control and water rights...
...government programs. Red tape seems to be a leading cause of the ethical backsliding: 60% of those polled agreed that "it would be impossible to make a living if farmers followed all the rules and regulations made in Washington." Environmental concerns also took a back seat to economic self-interest, says Claudia Waterloo, Farm Futures' editor in chief. "Only 70% of the farmers we surveyed said they'd notify authorities if pesticides spilled into a creek...
...millions of people, reading of the scandal, must have felt their deepest cynicism confirmed. If a Nobel laureate in science could sink to the moral level of Milli Vanilli or a White House spin doctor, then maybe the deconstructionists are right and there is no truth anywhere, only self-interest masked as objective fact...