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...maintaining a defunct and anachronistic institution, when there was the opportunity to make substantive changes—such as separating the Law Lords from the body to create an independent Supreme Court or removing the Bishops to instill the separation of Church and State—Blair instead packed the House with new Lords who will be sympathetic to his ideologies, some of whom would serve lengthy 15-year terms. Now that the Chamber has gathered support nationally, and is continuing to stand up to the powerful and popular Labour government, it is determined to disrupt Blair?...
...solution is to empower parents to make choices about their childen’s education. Why does our public system force the poor of our society to send their children to racially segregated and academically defunct schools? Given the opportunity, parents will make wise choices about where to educate their children. Nearly three-quarters of inner-city blacks support school choice and yearn to send their children to private or religious academies instead of dilapidated government schools. Policies that allow parents to choose a religious curriculum for their child will ensure real freedom of religion where beliefs are not marginalized...
Harvard’s Graduate Student Council has been divided about whether to explore the possibility of unionization, Rein said, because many believe it is an effective body for relaying concerns to the administration and fear that it might become defunct if a union were formed...
...Washington the consensus was that public-health officials were equipped to handle a couple of dozen cases of anthrax spread by envelope but not a couple of million spread by a crop duster. A 1993 report by the now-defunct Congressional Office of Technology Assessment showed that a broad dispersal of anthrax spores over a major city could cause 3 million casualties. Another report estimated that a smallpox release could kill 40 million. But Bush's budget this year allocated just $345 million for bioterrorism preparedness. Congress had passed legislation asking for $1.4 billion, and now that number is considered...
...addresses into multipurpose digital identities that can also serve as cell phone numbers and even electronic credit cards. Tsai plans to leverage his background in finance and Internet start-ups to help GNR: he previously worked in asset management and in fixed-income trading and at Urbanfetch, the now defunct U.S. Internet convenience store...