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...most of his eleven years in office, Australian Prime Minister John Howard has been accused of doing too little to right the problems of indigenous Australians. Not any more: now he's being criticized for attempting too much, after announcing the most startling government intervention in Aboriginal affairs in decades. A week after an inquiry released its appalling findings on the rampant sexual abuse of Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory, home to 12% of Australia's 455,000 indigenous people, Howard on June 21 outlined a plan to tackle what he says is "akin to a national emergency." Just...
...Aboriginal children. It told of babies being raped, young children acting out scenes from pornographic movies, teenagers selling themselves for food and drugs. Without swift action, it warned, "real disaster faces Australia within a generation." Alcohol fuels much of the violent chaos poisoning Aboriginal life, and Howard's federal intervention, using constitutional power to leapfrog the Territory government, begins there, banning it in about 60 communities for an initial period of six months. Even more radical is the government's welfare revolution: the docking of welfare checks if children miss too much school, and the quarantining of some government payments...
...more mature than the movie, which, whatever its ostensible message of love between two improbable strangers, is a celebration of male camaraderie, and how guys need to do their guy stuff. That too is a theme with an honorable movie history: in the snappy bravado of heroes in Howard Hawks westerns, the desperate friendship in war-movie foxholes, the sass and sarcasm exchanged by slobby Oscar and his poker pals in The Odd Couple. It exists in real life, too, of course, in less appealing ways than Knocked Up lets on. The old cliché, of construction workers giving...
...this sounds familiar. In June 1989, the Supreme Court issued three decisions that sharply limited the right to sue over employment discrimination. A day after the most prominent ruling, in Wards Cove v. Atonio, Senator Howard Metzenbaum (D., Ohio) declared that he would introduce a bill to overturn the decisions...
...Over the years, Drew Faust had been involved in many search processes, understood their intricacies and complexities, and took this one very seriously,” Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education Howard E. Gardner ’65 said...