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...says Raymond Baker, executive director of Global Financial Integrity, the capital-flight argument is similar to the businesses' objection to the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which outlawed overseas bribery. U.S. businesses would be at a competitive disadvantage, it was warned. Over time, though, America's example set a new global standard. Argues Baker: "There would be no net loss to the U.S. economy by eliminating secrecy. On the contrary, the more we can do to make the U.S. economy transparent, the more we can strengthen [it], and the more we will attract money from overseas...
Taken at face value, the accord pledges demonstrate an international will to act on global warming and energy, even in the absence of a true international treaty. "All the major economies are off and running," says Keya Chatterjee, acting director of the U.S. World Wildlife Fund's climate-change program. (See the World Future Energy Summit...
Economics 1010b instructor Christopher L. Foote is looking forward to starting sections on a Monday—as opposed to a Wednesday, like last year— because it allows professors and section leaders “a little more time to get our act together...
...underscore this point, and perhaps to act as a precursor for entrance into the justice system, many of the schools remind one of a prison, both in their physical layout and the very visible presence of uniformed police officers all around the building. It is no secret that if you devalue human beings and begin treating them as animals, or future inmates, they will eventually begin to act as such. It is no different in the American inner city school system...
However, despite apparent acts of deviance, teachers who talked to me off the record stated that the student’s behaviors were symptomatic of a more psychological problem, as many of the children were effectively suffering from “post-traumatic stress disorder.” In hushed tones, these teachers described issues that students were forced to deal with at home, and how the students deal with an ever-present understanding that many in the school’s leadership have no sincere or abiding interest in their future welfare. Rather, these “leaders?...