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Reich, who is the former U.S. Secretary of Labor, said he will push for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to counter corporate misdeeds, including stronger proxy-voting guidelines and more vigilant state-level oversight...
...There's more than a narrow point of equity here. The U.S., as Boot points out, has a good record as a colonial power. Puerto Rico, the largest remaining American colony (its status masquerades under the politically correct term commonwealth, but don't be fooled), is well governed and prosperous. But wise states do not impose on others conditions that will long be resented. The U.S. is right to demand that any Palestinian state renounce terrorism, for terrorism is a curse that spills over national borders. Similarly, Washington is entitled to say - as Bush did during last week...
Eventually, researchers would like to learn what role our genes, as opposed to our environment, play in the development of anxiety. "It has been known for some time that these disorders run in families," says Kenneth Kendler, a psychiatric geneticist at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va. "So the next logical question is the nature-nurture issue." In other words, are anxious people born that way, or do they become anxious as a result of their life experiences...
Taylor came to Harvard in 1983 after stints as a staff attorney for the National Labor Relations Board and as general counsel to the Office of Inspector General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
Lawyers for the three appealed the convictions, arguing that the prosecution had violated the Commonwealth constitution by using its priviledge of preemptory challenge to prevent men and women from serving on the jury solely on the basis of race...