Two generations later, his grandson abandoned this rules-based approach and used the river Tigris as a weapon against rebels in Babylon.The world is charting a similar course, away from rules governing scarce resources towards conflict over them.
Today I am launching a report by Labour's local government innovation taskforce, which charts a new course away from the old top-down command model and towards an era of people-powered public services.
James had been chased round a locked room by a sergeant who "tried to have his way with her" while on a driving course away from Deepcut, leaving her "visibly upset and shaken", according to fellow trainee Jane Worboys.
With any luck the Carlton Football Club will one day realise it has to chart a new course, away from the unseemly chest-beating of the past, and toward a new culture that's built from the ground up, with people and community embedded in its foundations.
As such, it has stunned the population here and shaken the government, which has been trying to steer a peaceful course away from Belgrade's control and the isolationist policies of Yugoslavia's president, Slobodan Milosevic.
