Until now, the selection of the Pope has been a more open political process than the selection of the World Bank President.
The question now is whether the world will now tolerate that the puff of smoke should only be released over Treasury. There's still eleven days to release a puff of smoke somewhere else. On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > It's nice just to have a contested election rather than the standard > insider-decided succession to the throne. (When they decide on the new > head of the World Bank, do they release a puff of white smoke from the > U.S. Treasury Department's O-level suites?) > > -- > Jim Devine / "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to > be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But > in poetry, it's the exact opposite." -- Paul Dirac > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l -- Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
