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...that corruption has worsened under the present regime," says TI's Murshid. The rise in extortion and violence has led the opposition Awami League (AL) to organize repeated strikes to try to force the government to resign. But the strikes are hobbling the economy and contributing to the growing consensus that the authorities are not in full control?thus emboldening criminals even further, and making matters worse for ordinary citizens. "The two parties are bashing each other, and we are caught in between," says a shopkeeper in Dhaka...
...decades, the government, believing lawyers were better suited to litigious Western societies than to consensus-oriented Japan, prevented the legal population from getting out of control by making the national bar exam notoriously difficult. But with courts backlogged and lawsuits mushrooming, the scarcity of lawyers is becoming dire. "There are lots of cities in Japan without a single lawyer," says Hiroshi Asako, a dean at the newly opened Waseda Law School in Tokyo. The Japanese Diet passed a bill in 2002 allowing universities to establish graduate law schools, and the "if you build it, they will come" approach is working...
Among the blockmates, there was a consensus that being placed in Dunster House was worse than being Quaded...
European studies is growing in importance and significance. The European Union (EU), now 25 members strong, presents a new world force that is increasing its presence in global politics. Despite controversies about constitution and unity, and though it still lacks consensus on common foreign and defense policy, Europe has in the past 50 years united itself in a way that is historically unprecedented, rejecting its past imperialist and military identity and rallying around its egalitarian tradition. With a unity founded on such democratic principles, an economy as strong as that of the United States and a multicultural population...
They are quick to add disclaimers like “We’re not here to pass judgment,” as Kalamchi says of DU. But the Greek consensus seems to be clear: they want to be different...