During his campaign Mr de Blasio promised to end "stop and frisk"—a goal he reasserted at his inauguration.
It will be reasserted at COP21, which should now also state clearly that this means carbon neutral energy by mid century.
It's not a revolutionary idea, but it's one that Mr. Gerbner and others think should be reasserted at a time when corporate consolidation is concentrating power over programming in ever fewer hands.
The leading Republican candidate for U.S. president, Donald Trump, has referred to "closing" the Internet in areas where the U.S. has enemies, while China's president, Xi Jinping, reasserted, at the second World Internet Conference (WIC) in China last week, that each state has a sovereign right to control what its citizens can and can't do in cyberspace.
This goal was reasserted at the world Education forum in Darkar Senegal in April 2000.
These fears have never really gone away, and they reassert themselves at times of political crisis.
He now needs to reassert himself at a more typical track.
As they seek to reassert themselves at the statewide level, Republicans are grappling with competing visions of how to define their party.
In 2013, new leaders will try to reassert control at a time when an ever growing number of Chinese citizens are using modern communication tools to demand better governance and broader freedoms.
McLaren's world champion Lewis Hamilton won in Budapest and is hungry for more while Brawn's championship leader Jenson Button is eager to reassert himself at a key point in the season after struggling in the last three races.
After his term as mayor ended, Michael Bloomberg has moved quickly to reassert control at the company that he founded and that bears his name, especially in its media operation.
