The typical stadium designer today is a corporate servant who churns out formulaic structures, either crudely serviceable or slathered in nostalgic references to the Roman Colosseum.
The Pratham team comprises of educationists, development professionals, media personnel, corporates, workers, activists, civil servants, bankers, corporate professionals, consultants, who all bring their experiences and perspectives to the organization and are unified by the common vision of improving the future of our children.
They're rather the servants of corporate power, which has "shaped the modern metropolis with the apparent inexorability of glaciers hollowing a valley".
Love, an economist and self-confessed patent nerd, had taken on politicians, civil servants and corporate lawyers, arguing against unfair monopolies on products from software to stationery.
I suspect that an underlying reason, hinted at in John Harris's article, is that very few politicians, civil servants and corporate leaders are among its alumni, and they simply don't get it.
The party's latest "populist" packaging is another wrinkle in a timeworn pattern; the most avid political servants of corporate elites are eager to keep generating the anti-elites rhetoric and imagery of down-home regular folks.
If the FCC continues down this path where "Democratic" and "Republican" members become servants of corporate power and the five-member board becomes the latest example of "regulatory capture" the Internet as we know it is in big trouble.
No degree of moral propriety among public servants, or corporate leaders, can stop the explosion of spying and the propagation of false information that we will witness over the next decade.
("We're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington... ..) "Who could predict that Dean's wild rant would become an unexpected blueprint for his party's revival?" writes Berman, in a book that has the potential to unite progressives and the sanest of the Tea Party movement, to join together to overpower a common enemy: the corporate purchasing of public servants.
His recipe for change largely involves the extension of the idea of shareholder value from a merely financial concept into the full range of human wellbeing, with a focus on environmental and other sustainabilities, on corporate responsibility and on "servant leadership" (leadership on behalf of colleagues rather than by domination).
