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The week鈥檚 news was thick with stories about control over direction-setting, from US preelection elbow-throwing to over the handling of sexual harassment to the prospect of sanctions that could relieve Yemen of its . 聽

Are any societies getting it right?

Ethiopia has just sworn in a woman , a first. (Already half of the country鈥檚 cabinet ministers .)

Look also, as usual, to Scandinavia. The 鈥渟ocial utopia鈥� label isn鈥檛 undisputed. at a White House report that living standards in Nordic nations were lower than those in the United States (the pushback: life 鈥渜uality鈥� is about more than money). Finns marked a quirky and controversial rite of tax transparency .

Norway seems to be displaying care in direction-setting. A looks at how the oil-rich country is openly approaching moves to leave fossil fuels behind: It will decide within months whether to purge its sovereign wealth fund of oil and gas stocks, and within years whether to fund a major initiative to capture and store CO2.

That鈥檚 a path that鈥檚 probably unavoidable, Harder maintains, even though it sounds contradictory. It鈥檚 a look at 鈥渉ow [even] an economy fueled by oil and natural gas,鈥� she writes, 鈥渃an attempt aggressive action on climate change.鈥�

Now to our five stories for your Friday, including a look at humanity at the border, confidence in the future of US vote-casting, and a special empathy between faiths at one university.聽