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...program, the easier it will be to identify those who pose a real threat to safety.There was, perhaps, one poignant criticism of Spitzer’s newest proposal. This past Friday in the chamber, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver posed the question, “Why would an undocumented immigrant obtain a special license, especially if it means they will be more subject to raids and deportation?”There is sufficient reason to believe that this would not have been a concern. Under current law, if an undocumented immigrant gets into a traffic accident with no license...
...female cast. (“Women don’t have prostates,” he said.) The Beckett Foundation is notorious for opposing all alterations to the author’s original work to this day. And yet English professor and Beckett scholar Robert Scanlan managed to obtain permission for unusual changes to three of Beckett’s plays, which he first directed in 2006 as “Beckett at 100” and which are now showing at the New College Theatre. But though the plays are adapted from their original format and a contemporary score...
...communities and wildlife from what they call "biocolonialism" or "biopiracy." The governments are drafting strict laws to ensure that the world's 300 million mostly poor tribal people share in the wealth that their knowledge helps create. One of the newer strategies is for governments or indigenous communities to obtain commercial patent rights on medicines and other products divined in animals and plants before the labs can muscle in. (None of the new laws are retroactive.) They also hope to make biocolonialism a key global trade issue at next month's meeting of the U.N.'s World Intellectual Property Organization...
...contributing to the American economy. Strangely enough, until last week it seemed that the government was moving in the wrong direction on this key issue. In late October, Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) slipped an amendment into an appropriations bill that would have raised the fee employers pay to obtain an H-1B for an employee from $1,500 to $5,000. Thankfully, the provision, which would have taxed companies for trying to recruit top talent to America, appears to have vanished in conference committee in the last few days. The controversy over fees, however, is a red herring...
...Rather than making sure that the uninsured have a sufficient amount of choice, a single-payer system often forces everyone to have the same choice, which has an insidious flipside. In Canada this meant that no one could sacrifice more to obtain better or more prompt treatment. It was only in 2005 that the Canadian Supreme court struck down a Quebec law forbidding private insurance for medically necessary operations, claiming that it violated the defendant’s right to person...