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...sanctions and the composition of the committee. Currently, the Ad Board seems to have a limited menu of punishment options. Offenses as varied as plagiarism and drug abuse are often met with the same response—mandatory time off from the school. This generalized punishment does not reflect the nuances of academic, personal, and other types of problems. Additionally, the size and makeup of the Ad Board is of concern. If we are to see these problems addressed, then the Review Committee’s report needs to make it to the Faculty Council’s Docket Committee...
...February speech, commissioner Kathleen Casey said it was imperative to address "the oligopoly in the rating industry" and overreliance on ratings in the SEC's rules. "These requirements - which accord privileged status only to ratings from certain firms - have served to elevate ... ratings to a status that does not reflect the actual purpose, much less the limitations, of credit ratings," she said...
...measures like land reform. What Paraguay is getting instead, at least for the moment, is "a telenovela," says respected investigative journalist Mabel Rehnfeldt of the newspaper ABC in the capital, Asunción. Yet she predicts the scandal will not damage Lugo's presidency too badly - for reasons that reflect both Latin America's machismo and its modernization. "Many Paraguayans on the one hand will say, 'Here's a man simply demonstrating he's a man,' " says Rehnfeldt, "while others will say, 'This is the 21st century. It's a private affair.' " (See the top 10 awkward moments...
...Obama is wise, he will reflect not on Mexico's challenges, real as they are, but on what extraordinary strides the nation has made in the last quarter of a century. At the time of the Mexico City earthquake in 1985, Mexico's political system had ossified into an elective dictatorship, in which power was held by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) for a staggering half-century. The economy has always had real challenges, like a difficult geography, with lots of desert and few navigable rivers. The long impoverishment of the Indian population blighted the whole nation's economic prospects...
...bucket loads over each other. Piet Klop, an investigator at the Washington-based environmental think tank World Resources Institute, says that people will not learn to ration water unless it hits their pockets. "We need to understand that it is a more valuable commodity than oil and prices must reflect that better," Klop says. "Cheap subsidized water is not helping people. It is giving them a bad service." However, radically hiking the prices of any basic commodity would be a tough sell for any politician, especially in a turbulent democracy such as Mexico...