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uxury of taking symbolic stands on principle; they have budgets to balance, deadlines to meet, and constituents to serve. From Wisconsin's Walker to Virginia's McDonnell to Nevada's Brian Sandoval, many have raised taxes when that was what it took to run their states the way they saw fit. They don't have

n will be, above all, a test of the maturity and realism of Italian voters." The mature, realistic action, presumably, would have been to return Mr. Monti — who was essentially imposed on Italy by its creditors — to office, this time with an actual democratic mandate. As Paul ICrugman wrote this week i

so broke right now. And the Republicans' refusal to acknowledge this is pretty much the whole problem. THIS WEEK'S READINGS Two months ago, when Mario Monti stepped down as Italy's prime minister, The Economist opined that "The coming election campaign will be, above all, a test of the maturity and reali

regious. Following through on them not only would damage the GOP's reputation but also could drain all legitimacy from the electoral college system. Virginia Republicans, (see Virginia Republicans' bald-faced power grab — last week in The Washington Post) thankfully, killed such a reform plan Tuesday. Rep

power by appeasing to voter sensibility with the promise of abolishing the much-loathed property tax for primary homes that current Prime Minister Mario Monti reinstated when he came to office in 2011, is an mystery wrapped in an enigma within a farce and evidence that Italy is on the road of becoming a th

mes Richardson & Sons, Ltd., Winnipeg Rozanne L. Ridgeway, Director, Citicorp. Charles S. Robb, Member of United States Senate; former Governor of Virginia Gianfelice Rocca, Chairman, Techint Group of Companies, Milan David Rockefeller, Founder and Honorary Chairman, Trilateral Commission, Chase Manha

Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE), AFL-CIO, CLC Yuang Ming, Director, Institute of international relations, Peking University Mario Monti, Director-General, World Trade Organization Yoshiji Nogami, Former Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, Japan Lucio A. Noto, Chairman and Chief Execu