Frost bite Boat-race people Summertime blues ReprintsAs ever, some worriers in Brussels also focus on the wrong things: institutions and top jobs.
To preserve a set of values and ideas under siege, you needed among other things institutions known as universities set somewhat apart from everyday social life.
It's a trailer for Defcad.com, a search engine for 3D-printable designs for things "institutions and industries have an interest in keeping from us," including "medical devices, drugs, goods, guns".
"Not trinkets, not garden gnomes but the things institutions and industries have an interest in keeping from us; access, medical devices, drugs, goods, guns".
"I think the key thing that institutions are saying is, compare schools, don't rank them," Dr. Will added.
But baseball, with its rigid attitude and stubborn pride, reinforces another lesson to kids everywhere: even if everyone does the right thing, hidebound institutions will spoil the happy ending.
Mr Greenspan is right that "the palpable fear that dominated financial markets" in the 1998 liquidity crisis is absent today for one thing, financial institutions have more capital and a better idea of what risks are in their portfolios.
For one thing, these institutions should not be substitutes for local leadership or ideas.
One may be, and usually is, committed in many different ways to many different kinds of thing: people, institutions, traditions, causes, ideals, principles, projects, and so on.
