Our own pre-eminent moral challenge will be to ease the brutality that kills and maims girls and women across much of Africa and Asia.
Despite several warnings from its own advisers and eminent organisations that negative gearing and capital gains concessions distort investment choices and encourage excessive borrowing and leverage, the government continues to sit on its hands.
And they were even urged by their own hand-picked "eminent person," Emil Salim, a former board member of one of Indonesia's largest coal companies, who headed up their three-year Extractive Industries Review, to get out of coal completely by 2008.
Concerned about the adverse impact the precedent of Kelo would have on private rights in real property, and lobbied heavily by property rights activists who had been following the Kelo case vigilantly, states began to adopt stricter laws pertaining to their own use of eminent domain.
On hand were Mr. Monserrate and Bertha Lewis, chief organizer of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or Acorn, which Mr. Monserrate had enlisted in opposing the project's housing levels and the city's plan to take over privately owned property by eminent domain.
The stories of looted works of art reveal these hidden details of modern history: here was a work owned by an eminent British businessman, who moved to France and whose art collection ended up in the hands of the pro-Nazi Vichy government.
'You like him?' Gates asks, between poses for the Observer photographer, but before I can discern whether he is referring to the model or the actual man, he offers his own view of the eminent Republican.
"If I had to redact my own archives," said one eminent scholar, "I know what I would do".
Having transformed workaday denim bluejeans into must-have items of high fashion at Guess, Maurice and Paul Marciano are now seeking to remake their own legacies as pre-eminent patrons and aggressive collectors of contemporary art.
After the lies of Joseph J. Ellis were uncovered -- lies he routinely told his students regarding his political and military experience during the 1960's, not to mention his own athletic past -- this eminent historian did not resign from Mount Holyoke College.
