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Whereas many see unfair or poorly implemented legislation as a problem endemic of developing nations, Dr. Ann Seidman and Dr. Robert B. Seidman ’41 argued in a discussion Tuesday night that laws can be the springboard for solutions...

Author: By Colin Whelehan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Scholars Propose Legislation | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

...that a bill works if it actually induces the behavior it prescribes and if that effectively helps resolve the targeted social problem,” Robert Seidman said...

Author: By Colin Whelehan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Scholars Propose Legislation | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

...ever remember if he said the word Somalia on the phone, but that's a problem because, like, lying to them in and of itself is a crime." - Regarding his 2008 arrest (Boston Globe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alleged U.S. Terrorist Tarek Mehanna | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

...what sounds so simple on paper will be far more complicated in the real world of economic policymaking. The problem is that the upturn isn't as synchronized as the downturn. Countries are emerging from recession at different speeds, with each facing its own special mix of inflationary pressures and unemployment - both of which affect decisions for monetary and fiscal policy. "We won't get the kind of coordinated response that is the rhetoric of the G-20," says Paul De Grauwe, professor of economics at the University of Leuven in Belgium. "Each country is going to look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the World Agree on a Stimulus Exit Plan? | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

...some ways, the Darfur activists' problem over the past few months hasn't been Obama so much as his special envoy to Sudan, Scott Gration. A decorated soldier who commanded the no-fly zone in northern Iraq for 2½ years, Gration campaigned for Obama last year, giving him much needed cachet among the military set. But his Africa experience consists of being raised by American missionaries in the Congo, from where they were evacuated three times - he likes to remind his African interlocutors that he too was once a refugee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Darfur Activists Frustrated with Obama's Sudan Policy | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

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