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TIME: What are some ways in which it does go wrong? jones: There are examples of companies being pressured by local communities to build a hospital or town hall in exchange for the right to build a pipeline. But the truth will out ... If you start doing those things, at some point you get pilloried for it. If [projects] don't have value or a strategic purpose or if they are slightly cynical, then those are the things that it's absolutely right to criticize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Enlightened Self-Interest | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...commission will decide next month, but it should be an easy call. There's no better place to debate the future of American government--its possibilities and responsibilities as well as its limits and faults--than where so much went so tragically wrong. New Orleans is still an almost blank canvas, and the next President should be required to explain how he or she intends to help fill it in. A vision of success in New Orleans will comprise specific ideas about jobs, education, health care, housing, water, the environment, spending and pork-barrel politics. But it should also illuminate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carving Up the Arctic | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...marry her cousin. Horrified, she went to Rulon Jeffs and pleaded to be allowed to wait a few years or be given to a different man. Though "Uncle Rulon" seemed sympathetic, it was Warren Jeffs, she says, who informed her that "your heart is in the wrong place. This is what the prophet wants you to do." Her sisters, including one who was among Rulon's wives, also opposed the marriage but felt powerless to stop it for fear of being banished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Polygamy Paradox | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

Some St. George residents following the case, while having no use for Jeffs, see a complicated principle hanging in the balance. "I'm not saying polygamists are right or wrong, but what they are doing is part of their culture, their religion," argues Randy Shaw, owner of the Little Professor bookstore in town. "I don't think a 14-year-old should be married to her cousin, but you have to look at their culture and the fact that we have allowed it to go on for hundreds of years. With this trial, we are mixing government with religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Polygamy Paradox | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...unreasonable argument--and when the surpluses became deficits, Greenspan changed his tune. But Democratic critics said his words provided cover for the President and Congress to squander the fruits of a decade of fiscal responsibility in months. While this exaggerates Greenspan's influence, it isn't entirely wrong, and Greenspan admits as much in his book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Not His Economy | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

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