Later, black separatism evolved into the hopeless call for a black state carved out of Western lands, an idea that still thrives in Afrocentrist fantasies.
Why not let Bosnia's Serbs join Serbia, its Croats Croatia and give Muslims their own state and a bit more land?The idea is beguiling but unworkable, and not just because Bill Clinton would have to tear up his Dayton "triumph".
We see examples all over Lower Manhattan; and for urban renewers across the land, the idea is a form of daily bread.
Mr. Pataki has not spoken publicly about the land swap idea yet, but Charles A. Gargano, a close adviser who represents the governor on the Port Authority's board, spoke favorably about the proposal over the weekend.
With due diligence and constant refinement, you will eventually win over the market and land your idea.
Almost as an aside, Obama raised the prospect of taking executive action to protect new areas of public lands, an idea conservation groups were quick to praise.
Perhaps the vision that replaces the Land-Grant idea requires a complete rethinking of what we mean by "education" and how it is delivered.
Government and business have teamed up to sell the country as the "land of ideas".
The particular project seemed far-fetched — the local topography is hilly and unsuitable for development — but nobody was interested in Delacruz's land-management ideas.
Semi-literate as the Bush bunch are, their vision of the Evening Land imposing ideas of order upon the universe has an implied link to Emersonianism.
