A woman’s place?
Economist - Finding a woman for the position of council president is a tougher task, but not impossible. It mainly involves looking for a clever woman who can control a room full of men at their strutting worst. Such figures have been known: Margaret Thatcher in her prime, or Angela Merkel now. The German chancellor has a special genius for appearing self-deprecating, while subtly hinting that she is surrounded by ridiculous men. (Asked by German journalists about her relations with France’s president a while ago, Ms Merkel replied: “I think I am the most boring person Mr Sarkozy has ever met.”)
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The oil price
Economist - So the oil shock will take time to abate. Some greens may welcome that, seeing three-figure oil as a way of limiting greenhouse emissions. Conservation will indeed increase. But everything high prices achieve could be done better by sensible carbon taxes. As well as curbing oil use, high prices have put tar sands in business which create far more carbon dioxide than conventional oil. Profits are going to ugly oil-fed regimes, not Western exchequers. And the wild unpredictability of prices will blunt the effect of dear oil on people’s behaviour.
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Balkans are no longer a hotbed of crime, UN report says
International Herald Tribune - The Balkans, once known as a hotbed of crime and violence amid wars in Yugosla
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Best Is the New Worst
NY Times, by Susan Jacoby - PITY the poor word “elite,” which simply means “the best” as an adjective and “the best of a group” as a noun. What was once an accolade has turned poisonous in American public life over the past 40 years, as both the left and the right have twisted it into a code word meaning “not one of us.” But the newest and most ominous wrinkle in the denigration of all things elite is that the slur is being applied to knowledge itself.
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Spying Scandal Widens at Deutsche Telekom
Spiegel - Investigators began searching Deutsche Telekom headquarters in Bonn on Thursday, looking for evidence that the firm spied on company managers and journalists. New allegations accuse the company of spying as far back as 2000.
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Ućutkani ućutkivač
Slobodna Evropa, by Teofil Pančić - Na upadljivu većinu srbijanske javnosti, »kosovska trauma« deluje široko, ali plitko; to će reći da je »Kosovo« u dominantnoj svesti više nekakav magloviti fantazam zgodan za noćno kafansko pražnjenje negoli konkretan prostor na kojem žive konkretni ljudi, i sa kojim stanovnik Srbije oseća još neku vezu osim neobavezno »epske«.
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‘International’ means bureaucracy and waste
Guardian - For Eurovision and Nato, read the Olympics and Burma, read the Moscow cup final and Darfur. Read the European parliament, Fifa, the World Bank, the Organisation of African Unity, the European parliament. I was brought up to regard “international” as synonymous with saintly. Today the word “international” suggests tailored suits, tax-free salaries, white Land Cruisers and Geneva.
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Pitanja o političkom, politici i politizaciji kulture
Republika - Želeo bih da izađem iz flaše kao ona muha koju je tome učio Ludwig Wittgenstein u svojim Filozofskim istraživanjima, ali se bojim da ću se, izašavši iz »moje« flaše, naći u nekoj drugoj većoj ili manjoj flaši koja će opet biti moja i za mene, za nas i za ostale moguće »živote«.
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