…stainable. In the early 1990s he developed the concept of Transit Oriented Development (described in his book Zhe Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community and the American Dream) -- an idea that is now the foundation of many regional policies and city plans around the world....
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…e, not by its own choice, but because Congress mandated it. In 2001, it empowered the NSA to obtain and archive data on American citizens. Accordingly, the NSA obtained the billing records of customers from phone and Internet companies and archived these records. The bulk collect...
…er told anybody to lie, not a single time — never. These allegations are false. And I need to go back to work for the American People.” This statement, made directly to the American public and not under oath, has come back to haunt Clinton. Why did he make it? He was under no...
… Financing and Restructuring Act." Now that Barack Obama is in town, he will soon sign into law with great urgency the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan." This latest Hail Mary pass will increase the federal budget (which has already expanded by $1.5 trillion in eight year...
…Lawrence Kuhn says the West often doesn’t understand the Chinese leadership’s key priorities for China. The 67-year-old American is seen by many as one of the few figures outside the world’s second- largest economy who actually does. He is regarded as a knowledgeable insider, ha...
…part of it and wanting to blow it up at the same time— a character for Richard Ford, or John Updike, or Harry Crews. An American man’s story. But now such stories have crossed a political line. The American man story is a right-wing story. Bannon found his models in political inf...
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…e board of a majority-Chinese-owned New Zealand dairy. In late September, a former prime minister who now represents an American company’s interests in China attracted attention for the sale of property “well above market rates” to an undisclosed Chinese buyer. Local politicians...
reasonable and realistic leaders should have nothing to fear from Egypt, with which it has an enduring peace treaty. The situation with Syria may not be exactly the same, however, especially when the two countries are still officially in a state of war. The regime of Bashar Assa...
Article 1. NYT Setting Sail on Gaza’s Sea of Spin Ethan Bronner July 2, 2011 -- SOME see a parallel with the Exodus, the ship filled with Jewish refugees that tried to break the British blockade of Palestine in 1947 and helped sway world opinion toward Zionism. Others are stru...
OUP CORRECTED PROOE - FINAL, 10/9/2014, SPi The Crooked Course Xxxi government. In the following days, I flew to Israel to convey the request to Yossi Beilin, then Deputy Foreign Minister. Shortly afterwards, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres dispatched the Director General of the...
/ BARAK / 74 government that the area around the temple’s surviving Western Wall, left uncared for under the Jordanians, was cleared and a stone plaza put in place for worshipers —at the expense of parts of the old Moroccan Quarter. It was under Labor, too, that Israel unilatera...
votes: one for a party list and one for a directly elected Prime Minister. This would be a personal test, an opportunity for Shimon to build on the still-tenuous achievement of Oslo and finally secure the endorsement of the Israeli people. It seemed, for a while, I might even ha...
new air mobile division we’d planned to use against Saddam’s Scud launchers were likely to be a lot more important than tank formations in future conflicts. Six days into the job, I called together every officer in the army, from the rank of lieutenant-colonel up. I said we need...
votes: one for a party list and one for a directly elected Prime Minister. This would be a personal test, an opportunity for Shimon to build on the still-tenuous achievement of Oslo and finally secure the endorsement of the Israeli people. It seemed, for a while, I might even ha...