A former university professor named Ashraf Ghani wrote a book in 2009 entitled Fixing Failed States, and now than he is President of Afghanistan, Ghani must be wondering if his book needs a complete rewrite - as he finds himself presiding over a state teetering on the brink of collapse.
What Africa needs now are more Martin's and Patricks' (see my last piece on Uganda entitled "Fix the Damn Pot Holes"), committed to "fixing the Jericho Roads" throughout Africa.
Afghan-American Ashraf Ghani, who once co-wrote a scholarly book tellingly entitled Fixing Failed States, surrendered his U.S. citizenship to become Afghan president, but he seems unable to fix the country of his birth.
In the picture -- showing a 1974 performance piece by Chris Burden entitled "Trans-fixed," for which the artist was briefly crucified by the hands onto the back of a Volkswagen Beetle -- the pair of metal posts should have appeared on the left-hand side of the garage door.
A highlight for me was a work by Vija Celmins entitled To Fix the Image in Memory (1977-1982), in which "eleven real rocks are paired with replicas carefully cast in bronze and painted".
Analyzing data from the Federal Highway Administration, Transportation For America released a study entitled The Fix We're In For: The State of Our Nation's Busiest Bridges that held a dire warning not just for the Bay Area, but for the entire nationinvest in transportation infrastructure now or pay the price.
Richard Johnson (Denver, Colorado) discussed uric acid, fructose, and the metabolic syndrome, which are the subjects of his book for the general public entitled "The Sugar Fix".
He recently had the idea for a TV series about the generally parlous state of the world, and the mostly juvenile political response to fixing it, entitled "Where are all the adults?" Then he realised that perhaps he had the opportunity to be a grown-up himself.
(Indeed, one of the conference panels was entitled 'move fast and fix things'.) It's also the hard-to-shift legacy of an unapologetically blind ~decade-long dash for growth regardless of societal cost.
The section, entitled "Protect Voting Rights, Fix Our Campaign Finance System, and Restore Our Democracy," features voting rights and money in politics commitments that will make even the most cynical activist smile and represents the cherry on top of what is by far the most progressive Democratic Platform ever proposed.
The article, entitled "Four Ways to Fix Banks," was written by Sallie Krawcheck.
