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...part of a movement that is pushing back hard against the government's power to meddle with property owners. The campaign is largely a response to the Supreme Court's controversial 2005 decision allowing the city of New London, Conn., to raze private homes for a commercial waterfront project. The ruling struck a deep chord in the American psyche; that the government could seize your house or business in order to build a road for everyone's use was one thing, but the idea that it could hand your property over to private developers was, to many, intolerable...
...commission, unable to compensate everyone who wants to build along the oceanfront, would no longer be able to protect it from ugly McMansions and ensure public beach access. And developers could build homes on dangerously steep slopes or plop factories into residential neighborhoods. More imaginatively, the nonpartisan California Budget Project argues that because Prop 90 applies to consumer-protection laws, if the state restricted ATM fees, it would have to compensate banks for the revenue they would lose because of the capped charges...
...science and international affairs, moderated the standing-room-only event. “What has transpired in North Korea represents the most serious disaster with regard to American national security in the past several years,” said Carter, who is also co-director of the Preventive Defense Project, a collaboration between Stanford University and the Kennedy School of Government. A theme throughout the 90-minute-long session was that the world has failed to take North Korea’s threats seriously. “The dirty secret is that our intelligence on Iraq and [weapons of mass...
...working on an exhibition called ‘Solitaire,’ which focuses on three painters who came of age in New York City during the 1960s: Lee Lozano, Joan Semmel, and Sylvia Plimack Mangold,” Molesworth said. “It is very much a project that stems from my interest in the oxymoronic category of feminist painting...
Cornell is providing the computer facilities and technical know-how for the project, he said...