Word: accessibility
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...Crucially, the cities developed local initiatives to raise workers skills and provide access to new jobs. Mass transit systems got an upgrade, too. Saint-Etienne, for instance, laid on a new downtown tram line for locals. Officials also polished their cities' cultural and public spaces. Local government funding in Bilbao, for one, helped transform a derelict patch of riverside into a cultural landmark, with the voluptuous-looking Guggenheim Museum at its center. (See pictures of The Louvre in Paris...
...graduate degrees in education while they are teaching.The organization was founded by Wendy Kopp in 1990, who conceived of the idea in the undergraduate thesis she wrote at Princeton in 1989. “As I moved through Princeton, I grew increasingly aware of students’ unequal access to the kind of educational excellence I had previously taken for granted,” Kopp wrote in her book “One Day, All Children.”Kopp’s plan to create a national corps of recent college graduate teachers was ambitious, but as she wrote...
...rule creates a psychotherapist-patient privilege for the detainees, and greatly restricts the government's access to mental health records. This will doubtlessly result in considerable litigation, where allegations of torture and abuse are raised at trial...
...picture: the most basic rule is that the law is entitled to all the evidence, in order to assure a fair trial. The rules relating to privileges are exceptions to that general rule; rules creating privileges deny the parties access to certain kinds of evidence. The legal theory is that the public's interest in protecting the privilege outweighs the public's interest in having all the evidence for a fair trial. Some are obviously necessary (e.g. lawyer-client), some are more historical than practical (e.g. priest-penitent), and some are quite questionable (e.g. spousal privilege). The theory underlying...
...Comm. R. Evid. 501 is taken from the military rules, but it did not include 501(d), which specifically rejected the physician-patient privilege. The government's ability to obtain access to detainee medical records has become a big issue. Under the existing law, there is no basis for denying the government such access. Amending this rule to conform to military practice would help clarify this issue...