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Posner's privacy rule thus dooms Mr. X to suffer because his sexual behavior, information the author considers legitimate for his employer to obtain, even though it could have no bearing on his reliability as an employee. Posner offers no remedy for such a flagrant injustice other than a grudging concession that "some presumably modest efforts to achieve a more equal distribution of income and wealth may be economically justifiable." It's not that callousness limits his ambition; only his faith in the decision-making capabilities of the owners of widget factories does it. Everyone is a rational maximizer...
Many critics of the U.S. passport system say the document itself is too easy to obtain. A criminal typically combs newspaper obituary columns for a suitable death and writes to the deceased's home town for a copy of the birth certificate, the most useful document required to get a passport. Some thieves steal valid passports from unwary travelers. Others bribe U.S. consular employees to issue visas, which citizens of all foreign countries except Canada need to enter...
Passports could be made harder to obtain-by instituting fingerprint identification or designing passports that could be matched with prints on birth certificates. Other answers to the fraud problem, say State Department agents, include giving some other agency responsibility for security-clearance checks. The agents also want the power to make arrests. At present they have to bring along another law enforcement officer whenever they finally catch up with a violator...
...take up to 36 days. While one of the bedrooms in some models is too small for a double bed, the living rooms and kitchens have vaulted ceilings, giving an impression of spaciousness. Because of the low price and an attractive 14.5% mortgage that Fox & Jacobs helps owners obtain, the typical monthly payment on the new cottage homes is only...
...recent gift of $7.5 million to endow 15 junior faculty positions is all the more important. The non-tenured associate professorships will keep young scholars in the academic professions when funding is particularly difficult for them to obtain. While the gift does not of itself create new positions, the Faculty should consider using the money freed up by the endowments to enlarge research opportunities for junior faculty. And in choosing scholars to benefit from increased research funding, the University should keep in mind its stated commitment to affirmative action...