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With less than two months to go as President, Bush faces few opportunities to change history's judgment of him, including his policies of lax regulation that helped create the crisis with which the world is now struggling. Painting a picture of himself rallying the world to the defense of free-market capitalism is a natural response to his diminished stature, and the G-20 summit is one of his last moments to gain attention on the global stage...
Vegans can be as strict or lax as they want to be in their food choices: the International Vegetarian Union's website includes vegan-friendly reminders about baking pans greased with animal fat, grain cereals that include animal-based glycerin, and sugar refined with bone charcoal. Then there's raw veganism, which is an offshoot of veganism in which none of the food can be cooked. Take that a step further and you get "mono meals," the idea that the stomach should only digest one type of food at a time. Basically, if you eat it, there is probably someone...
...openly licking their wounds, the losses are believed to have affected a number of stalwart hedge funds. Commentators across the board blamed Porsche for causing chaos on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange this week. The daily Die Welt called Porsche the biggest German hedge fund, and criticized Germany's lax disclosure laws. Porsche has been stealthily building a stake in VW and it only retained the element of surprise because German law did not require disclosure of the positions that account for more than 30% of its stake in VW. "Only when it is no longer possible for a company like...
...guzzle hard liquor,” as a Crimson staff writer reported at the time. That said, administrators should be wary of over-regulating against a potential repeat of these transgressions. At Yale’s all-day tailgate last year, where enforcement against underage drinking was comparatively lax, police officers issued only six infractions, none of which were related to alcohol. Converesely, in 2006, when Harvard barred all alcohol and other liquids from being brought to Allston and segregated students who were of legal drinking age, ten students were ejected for underage drinking, smuggling alcohol, and possessing false identification...
Subcommittee chairs maintain that their standards have not grown too lax...