As our parents age, they forget.

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While the region has made remarkable progress in helping children now of primary school age enrol in school, it must not forget its young people who missed out on that chance when they were growing up.

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Because, as I have discussed many times before, this is not just a debt crisis for the so-called 'periphery' economies. (I think we are supposed to forget, in these conversations, that the EU came of age with the Treaty of Rome.) It is also a crisis of competitiveness.

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The second sacred truth, service and selflessness, is just a variation on the age old Golden Rule: It is in your own self-interest to forget your self-interest.

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In this high-tech age -- when computer programmers are in short supply (don't forget the Year 2000 problem) and when Congress may liberalize immigration laws to lure foreign programmers to our shores -- this ban on programmers' becoming individual entrepreneurs is absurd.

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