Word: legalism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Cofferati was indeed a friend, he turned out to be the kind who tells you what you don't want to hear - in this case, "Camp closed!" In 2005, nine months after his election, the mayor ordered the swift dismantling of the encampment, plus checks on the legal status of its 120 occupants and an inspection of all unofficial housing in Bologna. The city of 373,000 helped families find temporary accommodation, but made legalità a top priority...
...locals seem to agree, with a recent poll putting the mayor's approval rating at 56%. That's because Cofferati's get-tough approach is coupled with a progressive policy toward legal immigrants. For its foreign residents, the city provides housing assistance, Italian-language courses, psychological counseling and walk-in help desks in native languages for bureaucratic questions. But the greatest boon to new arrivals is plentiful work - Bologna's 2.6% unemployment rate is among Italy's lowest...
...What followed was an object lesson in bureaucratic torpor. Wary of the gray legal area involved in tracking Internet attacks back to foreign servers, Sandia supervisors told Carpenter that it wasn't in the lab's interest to follow or stop the attackers. They ordered him to stop and not to share information on the attacks, even after the FBI had requested permission to have him work the case under their supervision...
...until the FBI itself got cold feet and told him to stop), but also against the government bureaucracy that wronged him. Carpenter sued for wrongful termination. In response, the nuclear lab spent untold amounts of taxpayer money (that's right: his money, my money, and your money) on a legal strategy that appeared to be designed to run up Carpenter's bills long enough to force him to drop the case. They made him fly back from his new home in Washington, D.C., to New Mexico for settlement talks that Carpenter says wouldn't even have paid his lawyers' fees...
...hours early one October morning in a mostly empty Science Center lecture hall, the tall dean of the little institute on Garden Street sat by the wall and listened. She took notes on a legal pad in an overflowing leather binder. Occasionally she checked her e-mail on a large, vintage BlackBerry with a green monochrome screen. The dean of Radcliffe, Drew Gilpin Faust, was a quiet observer at the sometimes-contentious Oct. 10 town hall meeting held by a University-wide science planning committee. At the meeting, a handful of Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) professors pushed back...