La pobreza antes que una condición material es una instalación mental. Se puede ser más rico o pobre en función de cuanto somos capaces de soñar en conseguir. Esto no es un planteamiento idealista, en cuanto el énfasis no se pone en la calidad de la ideas, su perfección íntima, sino que es pragmático y humanista en cuanto que la calidad humana se define a través de la relación entre una necesidad intrínseca “soñar” y su realización efectiva que da buena medida de la capacidad de superación del hombre.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
May 30, 2004
THE PUBLIC EDITOR; Weapons of Mass Destruction? Or Mass Distraction?
By DANIEL OKRENT
FROM the moment this office opened for business last December, I felt I could not write about what had been published in the paper before my arrival. Once I stepped into the past, I reasoned, I might never find my way back to the present.
Early this month, though, convinced that my territory includes what doesn't appear in the paper as well as what does, I began to look into a question arising from the past that weighs heavily on the present: Why had The Times failed to revisit its own coverage of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction? To anyone who read the paper between September 2002 and June 2003, the impression that Saddam Hussein possessed, or was acquiring, a frightening arsenal of W.M.D. seemed unmistakable. Except, of course, it appears to have been mistaken. On Tuesday, May 18, I told executive editor Bill Keller I would be writing today about The ...
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