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...Sweden's case, he adds, the crisis eventually had silver lining. "It acted as an alarm about Swedish economic policy, which was expanding too much. There was too much focus on defending the currency. The tax system encouraged indebtedness and real estate speculation through cheap loans. The crisis exposed shortcomings, and we had to change tack...
...these law students and of the LGBT community at large, the law school was certainly more bearable for sexual minorities in this decade than when Lambda was founded. However, with these improvements, the sense of urgency so present in the early days of Lambda has waned somewhat. The focus of Lambda has shifted to social and community building events, with activism and political organization taking more of a backseat role. While we have a yearly conference addressing cutting edge LGBT legal issues, it tends to be more academic than rabble-rousing...
...clear message to students would be to focus on their subjects in school...rather than spending enormous amounts of time and money trying to game the SAT and ACT,” he said...
...with many Law School students. Christel A. Green, a third-year law student, said she attended the event out of an interest in “economics and its effect on law and the best ways to help poor nations develop,” a subject that Sen has focused on for much of his career. In his lecture, Sen outlined the Enlightenment-era divergence in theories of social justice that produced two main philosophical positions: transcendental institutionalism, which focuses on the nature of a perfectly just society, and realization-focused comparisons, which compare levels of justice in societies...
...Communist Party - the authorities had to been seen as taking action. The public was thus informed of arrests of businessmen and resignations by top officials, including a provincial governor and the head of the state food-quality inspectorate. But "stability" also means not letting the blame game allow its focus to center too squarely on the party. Within days of the story breaking, the state media was commanded by the Propaganda Department to tone down its coverage of the tainted-milk-powder scandal. Lawyers looking to file suits on behalf of aggrieved parents were ordered in no uncertain terms...