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...regulatory czar, Sunstein will be charged with overseeing the federal government??s regulatory standards in areas like the environment, consumer safety, and health. In addition, Sunstein may also review new regulations to reform the financial services industry...
...heroin to its hard-core addicts. Since 1994, the Swiss government has used a heroin prescription program that enables doctors to provide heroin junkies with a strictly controlled dosage of heroin everyday. Shockingly enough, this program has succeeded in controlling the nation’s drug problem beyond the government??s wildest dreams. The Swiss pilot program—recently made permanent by a nationwide referendum on the issue—has saved the nation money, decreased crime rates, and halted the spread of infectious disease...
...From the Chinese government??s perspective, I would be very suspicious of overseas Uyghur populations,” said Max G. Oidtmann, who lived in Xinjiang until 2006 and is a member of Beydulla’s Uyghur literature class this semester. “The Chinese government apparatus knows very well that the majority of Xinjiang and overseas Uyghurs are dissatisfied. It’s unfortunate but perfectly understandable. Most governments want to keep tabs on overseas groups that might threaten them...
...less,” she noted, and then connected this “less” to a string of unassailable endeavors: stem cell research, public service schools, the arts, global engagement, and sustainability. The endowment, in other words, serves noble causes, and thus deserves protection from the government??s greedy redistributive hands...
That’s not to say Harvard should be taxed at standard corporate tax rates and its funds be deposited into the government??s general accounts. One good compromise would tax the endowment at a lenient rate and use the funding exclusively for public higher education. Such a program would redirect a sliver Harvard’s income in a way that would still, in Faust’s words, “enable students and faculty of both today and tomorrow to search for new knowledge...