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...Reformers point to California, where jury awards for noneconomic damages, such as pain and suffering, are capped at $250,000 and malpractice rates have held relatively steady over the past year. With tort reform, says Ron Neupauer, a vice president of Medical Insurance Exchange of California, "you don't have the emotion-laden blockbuster verdicts." But plaintiffs' lawyers protest that curbing noneconomic damages will disproportionately impact women, children and the elderly, who typically suffer less "economic" harm, such as lost wages, when they are hurt...
Geisinger Professor of History William C. Kirby assumed the post of dean of the Faculty on July 1, pledging comprehensive curricular reform with special attention to study abroad, international studies and science...
Moving the Study Abroad Office was one of several recommendations for study abroad reform made in a March report co-authored by Kirby and William L. Fash, who is the chair of the Faculty Standing Committee on Study Out of Residence...
Musharraf, who formally took the oath as president in June 2001 after coming to power in a bloodless military coup in 1999, also discussed his plans for political and social reform in Pakistan and the country’s rocky relations with India...
Economic revival, improved governance, political restructuring and reducing poverty, he said, form the core of his administration’s plans for reform...