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> On Jan 15, 2010, at 5:02 PM, Chuck Grimes quoted David Brooks:
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> It’s time to take that approach abroad, too. It’s time to find
>> self-confident local leaders who will create No Excuses countercultures
>> in places like Haiti, surrounding people — maybe just in a neighborhood
>> or a school — with middle-class assumptions, an achievement ethos and
>> tough, measurable demands....''
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> Brooks is usually just something of a chucklehead. Now's he ascended to the
> level of toxic prick.
The guy is usually just a sort of Mad Libs Oakenshott social engineering wisdom of experience organic systems spontaneous order human nature guy, but whew, propose transforming an island of savages into dull Babbits, and he's Jeffery Sachs.