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...Vries—who is head of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party—has held a place on the European political stage since being elected a European deputy in 1984. He took his current position only five days after the European Parliament published a list of goals for the battle against terrorism. That battle, he emphasized throughout his speech, is far from over...
Perhaps people have some stereotypes about athletes because of their limited contact with them. I, however, have seen a baseball player cut to the heart of romantic poetry, a lacrosse player with a rock-solid grasp of electoral reform, a rower receive top grades in statistics and calculus, another rower who, in addition to working an outside job, was a teaching fellow in engineering, and yes, I’ve seen a football player with the ability to converse about American literature with the profundity of a tenured professor. These are all varsity athletes, all clearly demonstrating more than enough...
...Cynthia Glassman have argued against large fines against law-breaking corporations, reasoning that big fines only injure innocent shareholders. Christopher Cox, the new SEC chairman, is expected to lean the same direction. Meanwhile, even in the halls of congress there has been concern that the tough Sarbanes-Oxley corporate reform bill has placed too great a burden?and expense?on companies working to tow the line. Cox has already said he?s going to give small companies some relief from Sarbanes-Oxley by extending for one year the deadline for coming into compliance. It could be that the recent string...
Another plus is his experience in the private sector, which will inject some involvement in a court woefully under-qualified in matters of commercial law. Justice Breyer is the only justice on the Court with experience in business litigation, and the Court’s reluctance to reform the neglected inconsistencies in the field has left a messy legal terrain...
...competence. This philosophy might have worked in a world devoid of unpredictable external forces, but it certainly does not work in the world of reality. In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks four years ago and Hurricane Katrina today, public grief and outrage catalyzed the reevaluation and eventual reform of malnourished, incompetent national systems of response and protection. Following September 11, increased funds for national security became available, and airport security multiplied in vigilance in a matter of days. Following Katrina, the cronyism and corruption of power that spawned the likes of Michael Brown were exposed, leading...