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...Framing this was so tricky that Tung and his colleagues shied away from it from the start. Even highly placed members of the administration admitted, in those early years after the handover, that it would be wrong to enact such a piece of legislation when the majority of the members of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong were not elected by a popular franchise...
...United States and its move to ban soda without other educational reforms has set an irresponsible example for these other districts to follow. Instead of just emulating Los Angeles, other school districts that seek improved health for their students must recognize the limited effect of the ban and consequently enact a plan to actually address health problems...
...country’s elected officials hesitate to enact legislation to provide proper hospital care for rape victims, while the rape victims go home filled with shame and anxiety. But withholding emergency contraceptives is more than political paralysis—it’s inhuman...
Both doctors and insurers say the crisis will not abate until legislatures enact reforms. President George W. Bush and the American Medical Association have called for federal limits on recovery for pain and suffering in malpractice cases, and two states, Pennsylvania and Nevada, have already enacted similar reforms. In Mississippi the Governor has called for a special legislative session this month to consider the issue...
...They see that they need to start fixing things right away instead of the committee working and taking a year and taking another year to enact a policy,” said Irene B. Janis ’03, a Coalition Against Sexual Violence member...