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...Blair's speech to Congress will have to "speak truth to power," if only to guard against more jibes at home about being Bush's poodle. He knows his oft-stated vision of a more cooperative global order - and maybe even his job - depend on whether he can help shift the U.S. toward a more respectful, accommodating attitude to the rest of the world. While he will be speaking for many countries beside his own, for Blair to preach internationalism in Bush's Washington is an experiment in irresistible force meeting immovable object - with the fate of Messrs. Begg...
...that could be used against the U.S. That was a pure national-interest case, for there's nothing so threatening to a nation than weapons that might incinerate millions of its people. The trouble is, we have not found any such weapons, which has led some Administration supporters to shift their ground. Whether or not Saddam had nukes, they argue, his rule was so vile that getting rid of it was a service to mankind. That is true. But if the test for deploying American power to remove a regime is not the danger it poses...
...role of radio in Asia began to shift in the 1980s, when the first shoots of democratic reform sprouted across the region. When Corazon Aquino led her bloodless revolution to overthrow Marcos in 1986, she was determined to use the airwaves once more. As citizens gathered in the steamy heat of their shacks, they heard then police chief and future President Fidel Ramos boast on the radio that the military had abandoned Marcos to join the people's cause. An exaggeration, to be sure. But the crow of victory prompted thousands to flood the streets and give the people-power...
...Imperceptibly, radio was changing from a tool of power to a tool of the people. Nowhere was the shift more apparent than in Taiwan in the mid-'90s, when the then opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) depended on an underground station called Greenpeace to broadcast its samizdat message. (The station has no relationship with the environmental group of the same name.) On Greenpeace's unfettered airwaves, citizens could express proindependence views and criticize the then ruling Kuomintang (KMT). Many supporters called in at night, taking care to keep the lights off at home lest their neighbors suspect they...
Stepping into his economist’s shoes, Summers discussed what he thought would be a shift from the rigid production hierarchies of the past century to an economic culture that values and disseminates ideas rather than material products. That, Summers said, will make the role universities play more crucial...