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Paul Light has spent much of his professional life documenting government's failures.  But, he says we would do well to focus on government's achievements as well. Light is a former associate dean of the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, and he's now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington and a professor of public service at New York University.  We hear a speech he gave at the Chautauqua Institution in New York state.

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