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Student leaders say they sometimes struggle to hold events that satisfy both Massachusetts drinking laws and their members’ desires for lax alcohol restrictions. Whereas the administration focuses on the former, student group leaders often emphasize the latter, bringing the two into inevitable disagreement...
According to Baldwin, lax campaign finance regulations have led to many of the problems that plague the American political arena. “I don’t want to see anyone who’s unqualified in office,” he said. “It always troubles me that certain politicians are all too willing to serve the needs of powerful interest groups...
...host of bureaucratic documents during every daily activity? Also, the bill does not provide nearly enough protection of the right to privacy, which, while not explicitly included in the Constitution, has nevertheless been upheld by the Supreme Court. Finally, allowing citizens to sue their cities for being too lax on enforcement will accomplish little, and places an enormous amount of pressure on law enforcement officials to uphold the terms of the law. In fact, this particular provision could even lead to hyper vigilance, which would only increase the opportunity for unfounded discrimination...
...attack, especially since there hadn't been a major Taliban attack in Peshawar this year. "With the passage of time, security people on roads, especially those checking the roads, become less attentive," he says. Indeed, several weeks ago, Interior Minister Rehman Malik suspended a police chief in Islamabad for lax security after officers manning a checkpoint failed to stop and search the minister's vehicle...
...good question. Few Brits would disagree with Clegg's calls for greater transparency in a parliament tainted by last year's serial revelations of the ways in which some MPs and peers milked a lax expenses regimen, Lib Dems among them. He's also likely to use any leverage to push for the introduction of a proportional-voting system and a right for constituents to recall MPs who break the rules. The second of those, at least, should prove uncontroversial in a country that regards its political classes as even more venal than its bankers. But Clegg's modernizing zeal...