court this middle of the road justice proposed six simple and elegant ways to solve some of the stickiest problems in america. whether you agree with all or not, this brilliant, brief book will make you think at length. and now, for the last look. the small country of lebanon is bursting with excess at the moment. there is an excess of refugees more than one million syrian refugees have flooded across the border in the last three years. now there is an excess of trash in its capital city. i don t mean slightly overflowing garbage bins. i mean trash piling high on the streets, reeking and rotting in the heat and giving off fumes as citizens try to burn it. the country s biggest landfill closed this month and a divided government couldn t agree on new sites for the trash facing heavy protests. why didn t the president step in and do something about this mess? well there is no president. the city may be full of trash,