Word: legalism
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...CONS: A more extensive partnership between Yahoo and Google will be challenged as anti-competitive and will almost certainly be thwarted on legal grounds. Microsoft has already begun lobbying Washington against such a move...
Like many legitimate travelers, Heathrow's homeless are in search of escape--from debts, from legal troubles, from family responsibilities. They often have mental-health or substance-abuse problems, and they often refuse help. During the day, some travel into London to beg, busk or take drugs, while others remain in the airport, scrounging food from sympathetic restaurant workers. "When I came from Africa, I couldn't believe people could be homeless in Britain," says Motunde. "But I discovered that homelessness is a way of life. It can be very difficult to convince people to change and receive help...
...interviews for his upcoming book. “I plan to write a book on how to improve human rights performance of companies, focusing particularly on transnational corporations,” Ruggie said. Ruggie said he plans to evaluate not only the voluntary, but also the national and international legal measures that can help achieve human rights compliances from businesses. In his book, he said he also hopes to explore how current enforcement practices can be improved. Ruggie, a professor of international relations at the Kennedy School and a Harvard Law School affiliate, has held the position of the United...
...meant a place where white people blended with Asians. At the time, 19% of white women in Hawaii married Chinese men, and that was considered radical by the rest of the nation. Black people made up less than 1% of the state's population. And while interracial marriage was legal there, it was banned in half the other states...
...Obama's father had an agenda: to return to his home country and help reinvent Kenya. He wanted to take his new family with him. But he also had a wife from a previous marriage there-a marriage that may or may not have been legal. In the end, Ann decided not to follow him. "She was under no illusions," says Abercrombie. "He was a man of his time, from a very patriarchal society." Ann filed for divorce in Honolulu in January 1964, citing "grievous mental suffering"-the reason given in most divorces at the time. Obama Sr. signed...