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...anyone with good insurance—threatens to create a culture of victimhood in this country, driven by lawyers who know how to game the system to collect their 40 percent. As is chronicled on websites like Overlawyered.com, the range of cases is breathtaking. Congress is perennially debating tort reform to stop lawsuits like these, but there is little indication that anything will happen soon, with the financial committees of Congress preoccupied with accounting reform. Meanwhile, lawsuits continue to drag down the American economy from all directions...
...time has been ignored by all but a few die-hard monarchists. But in the past few months, Pahlavi's message has started to resonate back home. During his father's reign, there was widespread loathing of the Shah's excesses. But the current regime has so alienated many reform-minded Iranians that Pahlavi, who lives outside Washington, has become a source of hope. From studios in Los Angeles, he makes regular broadcasts to Iran, which are watched avidly, though illegally, on satellite TV. In Iran, contact with Pahlavi is treated as a criminal offense. But in a land where...
Student and Faculty input on these decisions would be welcome, and one of the Corporation’s most immediate priorities must now be to reform the undemocratic and murky system of selection. The Corporation will soon begin the search for Winokur’s successor, and they must trust the Harvard community enough to give it a voice in the decision...
...years, the U.S. tax system has started to play Robin Hood in reverse. The availability of new tax shelters, combined with lax enforcement by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), has let the rich and dishonest evade their obligations and increase the burden on the American public. Without drastic reform, tax loopholes and outright evasion will create a vast paid subsidy for the wealthy—or, to put it another way, a huge hidden tax on everyone else...
...Cato Institute analyst points out, Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that the only legitimate governments are those based on the consent of the governed, a consent that Americans have given for 200 years. The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, instead of promoting fairness, undermines this system of debate and free election...