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Ancient Rome is famous for its public bathhouses - the Baths of Caracalla are six times larger than St. Paul's Cathedral and could serve 1,600 people at once - and the Roman commitment to hygiene didn't stop with just bathing. At one point Rome boasted 144 communal lavatories. The city's giant toilets, with their long, benchlike seats, were not used every day; for the most part, Romans threw their waste onto the streets...
...Paul Volcker, the former Fed chairman, and Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, agree that governments should mandate separation between commercial and investment banks. Volcker argues that President Obama’s “regulate the giants” approach is insufficient, since the market changes faster than regulators can keep up with it. Under Volcker’s plan, commercial banks and investment banks would still be free to flourish—just as separate companies...
...members of the NATO mission which could include 500 additional British troops standing ready for deployment as early as the end of November, provided the Karzai government gives convincing assurances of its intention to tackle corruption - and assuming Washington finally arrives at a decision. On Nov. 16, Major-General Paul Newton, the Assistant Chief of Defense Staff, announced a new British counter-insurgency doctrine - the military's first in eight years -and said it needed to be swiftly implemented. "Does this sound to you like a briefing of the sort that you're perhaps used to, carefully scripted and modulated...
Institute of Politics Visiting Fellow and former U.S. Senator Norman B. “Norm” Coleman has spent the past three decades working in public service. Coleman became mayor of St. Paul, Minn. in 1993 and won his Senate seat in 2002. His prolonged battle for reelection grabbed national headlines, ending with his concession to Al Franken ’73 last June...
Harvard economics and philosophy Professor Amartya Sen and Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris economics professor Jean-Paul Fitoussi discussed their research on alternative ways of measuring the success of a society as part of a panel discussion organized by Center for European Studies visiting scholar Éloi Laurent...