March 20, 2008
The Quest to Protect Creative Policy Ideas
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton last year delivered a keynote address to a conference on big, new policy ideas sponsored by a Washington think tank. She flattered the audience by observing that "everyone in Washington knows there are a lot of good ideas knocking us over the head. We haven't yet decided to open the door and let them in."
Senator Clinton's remark was not simply flattery, however. It had an element of truth to it because, as reporters and political scientists frequently
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