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Enforcing global justice has to be the legal challenge of all time. The International Criminal Court (ICC) has global authority, but its executive power is limited to a few buildings in the Hague and its budget to $125 million, 30 times smaller than the NYPD's. And its mandate to prosecute the world's worst offences is rejected by the governments of more than half the world's people...
...first President to recognize that change was needed. He restored fiscal sanity by slaying hyperinflation, but his attempts at social reform were timid. Lula's victory in 2002 panicked Wall Street and the Brazilian élite. But instead of defaulting on Brazil's foreign debt or busting the budget, as they feared he would, Lula embraced one of the few positive legacies of Brazil's royalist roots: deliberate, negotiated consensus-building. It's a hallmark of Brazil's widely respected diplomatic corps - and it tempered Lula even when he was a metal-workers union boss in the 1970s. Unlike more...
...story "Obama's Rx for the budget," you quote the President as saying, "Medicare and Medicaid on their current trajectory cannot be sustained" [March 2]. In my opinion, the only fair way to create a new medical program is to have Congress give up its current coverage and create a program that its members too will participate in. Marilyn Steinhart, BALLWIN...
...Center at 12:30 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. Janitors, library workers, security guards, and dining-hall staff will come together to make visible the very real consequences of these potential layoffs. Hundreds of working people are refusing to be reduced to percentage points on Harvard’s budget charts and are fighting to keep the jobs on which they and their families depend...
Enforcing global justice has to be the legal challenge of all time. The International Criminal Court has worldwide authority, but its executive power is limited to a few buildings in the Hague and its budget to $125 million, one-thirtieth the size of the New York Police Department's. It has wide agreement on what constitute the worst offenses, but its mandate to prosecute them is rejected by the governments of more than half the world's people...